Not your grandparent's Oldsmobile
08/27/1999
(4 out of 5 stars)
"This album isn't your standard fare-- music ranging from minimalist techno to jazz-inflected trip hop to orchestral industrial rock laid down as a backdrop to Anna Wildsmith's interesting multilingual spoken word/sung bits. Musical contributors include Euphonic, Raymond Watts of Pig (who recycles one of his instrumental tracks off Pig's "Wrecked" as accompaniment to Wildsmith's voice), sundry members of KMFDM, and more. The musical quality isn't consistent-- it goes from really interesting to not that interesting; and alas Wildsmith's voice (the missing link between Elastica's Justine Frischman and PJ Harvey) can grate at times. However, this album is unlike anything you've heard (unless you have the first Sow album, a more consistent but less gripping effort) and that's probably recommendation enough."