Jim Thirwell AKA Foetus/Clint Ruin is One of Britain's Highest Regarded Industrial Figures who Has Worked with Artists Ranging from the the and Marc Almond to the Melvins.
Jim Thirwell AKA Foetus/Clint Ruin is One of Britain's Highest Regarded Industrial Figures who Has Worked with Artists Ranging from the the and Marc Almond to the Melvins.
"Part of JGT's ongoing Picasso-Matisse style battle with Nick Cave, you see, the mercy seat was more commercial, more accessible, so JGT says to himself, " I can do that".
Hence, we have 'Thaw', which goes in my "best album of career" drawer, not one bad song or wasted moment to be found, and I've tried looking everywhere.
Great to play at office parties, Christmas and Thanksgiving.
Also a great repellant for the "I love trent reznor and ministry, look at my wounds, they are beautiful" type scum that have claimed our music.
Buy it or don't, I dont care. p.s. this is one release where the CD version sounds as good as the vinyl."
Foetus at his best
slugin' nulgis, hmm | 10/19/2001
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Nail is usually hailed as Jim Foetus Thirlwell's masterpiece, but Thaw is even better imho. On Nail ugly drum machines sometimes dissipate the tension. Thaw is more organic and more manic. Nail is calculated. Thaw is a magnificantly horrible accident."
Gave me bad dreams
Zhimbo | New York City | 04/19/2001
(4 out of 5 stars)
"I give this album a high rating, but I admit I got rid of my copy. I simply found it too disturbing to ever listen to! Still, as a completely unadulterated musical display of violence and hatred, it's pretty damn impressive."
Thaw...raw
I X Key | tomorrow | 03/06/2003
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This is absoolutely the most jarring of any Foetus album yet. The music makes your ribs crack not only because of the noisy, thickly composed screaming metal-banging music, but also the immediate juxtaposition of wild noise & some of Thirlwell's quintissentially Thirlwell modern classical pieces. There's also a blues song (with very poetic lyrics, I might add as a well-read poet), & some tabla drumming. This crazy experimental music can be pretty catchy, too, if you ask me -- especially the 4th & 5th songs. Or anyways. I mean. I like those songs a lot. It's also pretty incredible that Thaw is so radically different as a whole from the Foetus album that preceeded it: Nail, also wonderful music. Between them he did a Wiseblood album, Dirtdish, which has a lot of pulsing static white noise."