The tragic death of Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson earlier this year signalled the end of
Throbbing Gristle, whose surviving members are currently working to complete their final
album before retiring the name. It couldn't be a more appropriate time to revisit their
revolutionary records of the 1970s and 1980s, remastered by Chris Carter and reissued on
Industrial Records. Their first proper album, The Second Annual Report is essentially an
edited collection of live and studio takes, and still sounds fresh and uncategorisable.
'Slug Bait' has lost none of its transgressive power: the ICA recording foregrounds Genesis
P.Orridge's gleefully macabre lyrics (inhabiting the mind of a particularly nasty murderer),
while the shorter Southampton and Brighton versions emphasise the minimal synth drones and
sampled voices. 'Maggot Brain' sounds like 60s psychedelia that's taken a wrong turn and
ended up in hell, while 'Live At Rat Club London' is probably the closest thing on here to
the common conception of industrial, all disorientingly looped spoken vocals, brutally
mechanized percussion and needling synthesizer jabs, while 'After Cease To Exist''s
oppressive atmospherics - taking up an entire side of the original LP - pretty much gave
birth to the entire dark ambient genre. The comparatively bright-eyed and bushy-tailed,
Kraftwerk-influenced single 'United' - the tune that ushered in a million inferior cold wave
pop bands - is included along with its gloriously compressed and distorted B-side 'Zyklon B
Zombie'. It's insane to think The Second Annual Report came out in '77, the same year as
Never Mind The Bollocks. Pause for a moment and reflect on that, then press the buy button.
Tracklist:
01 Industrial Introduction
02 Slug Bait Live at the ICA London
03 Slug Bait Live at Southampton
04 Slug Bait Live at Brighton
05 Maggot Death Studio Recording
06 Live at Rat Club London
07 Live at Southampton
08 Live at Brighton
09 After Cease to Exist
10 United
11 Zyklon B Zombie
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