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Washingmachine Mouth

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Fan or not, this CD will transport to another world. Save for what most would consider "real" songs (cutting face and Satelite) this CD is basically just sparce beats and interesting sound clips to send you into an alternate dimension. I picked it up simply because it was the cheapest pigface cd i could afford back in 6th grade. Now im in college, and its still great to recover to hang overs to. Oh, and Satelite will leave you speechless.

This is not my favourite Pigface offering but it's interesting enough. You can hear bits and pieces from other Pigface songs, all mixed up into glorious sounding sound wall of textures and noise. Worth buying if you have all the other 'new' recordings,

Ostensibly an extended-play single, Washingmachine Mouth connects quite well, with the spooky whispered introduction of "Dead Flowers" that could open up any great Halloween mixtape, the superb bassline and metallic production flourishes of the snarling, infectious "Cutting Face" and the various deconstructed songs and soundscapes that follow -- especially the white noise blur of "Satellite."

The sequencing gets a little confusing as listed -- on the CD jacket the songs are listed with numbers AND subparts, yet your CD player only recognizes individual tracks. So it's necessary to get to know this EP a little bit before you attempt to program it or listen to it on random.

Pigface has never been an easy pill to swallow -- they make Killing Joke sound like pop music -- but this EP is a nice introduction to the various threads that run through their music: industrial, noise, collage, percussive onslaughts, abstracted song structure, and sheer listener challenge. Their full-length albums can take some time to sink in, but Washingmachine Mouth pays off fairly immediately.