Red Room is the first of two albums by Pig that are currently on my review pile, Red Room is Pig's latest album and Sinsation is a classic re-issue. For this album KMFDM legend and Pig mainman Raymond Watts has collaborated with Jim Davies on writing and arranging En Esch, Michelle Martinez, Gunter Schulz, Chris Hall, Alexis Mincolla, Mike Watts, Enrico Tomasso, Anita Kyoda With the PIG choir: Emily Kavanaugh, Burton C Bell, Chris Connelly, Marc Heal, En Esch, Kanga, Susannah Doyle, Anita Kyoda, Chris Hall, I Ya Toyah, Jim Davies, Mark Alan Griffiths, Mike Watts, Jimmy Livingstone it was mainly recorded at Ranch Apocalypse and Otherwise Studios.
The album opens with Crumbs, Chaos And Lies a dark twisted industrial floor filler with a truly dirty bassline, deep throated vocals looking at the crazed world we currently inhabit.
Red Room is a place for the dead to meet reflections on their fate, howling synths extruded guitars mangle the mind against wall wobbling bass that makes sure that my first impressions of Pig as being influenced by JG Thirwell's Foetus back when I saw Pig at the Marquee in I think 1990 still holds true.
Dum Dum Bullet is aimed at the new regime, he wants love to reign supreme, destroy hatred and violence, key tones for enlightenment, his manifesto for a better world is sung by the choir, strings rise up, the oppressed really must.
Does It Hurt Yet well does it, well musically not at all, clap track percussion and slow spoken vocals ask how you've survived all the pain and distress of recent years without being infected.
Trash Temple is a song for Bonfire night, retelling Guy Fawkes story among the industrial ruins, trying to defeat an entrenched establishment, coming across like an adult nursery rhyme, we should never forget the power of trying to remove the evil doers who claim power over us.
Slave To Pleasure is ready for the darkest rooms of your local fetish industrial club, dark distressed beats for your most diseased fantasies to become realities.
The Sick Man's Prayer has Raymond looking at his deviant self and what has made him the sick bunny he is over dark industrial beats and synths. Six Eye Sand Spider is staring you down and you don't know how to escape his gaze, can you testify and escape the court of pain.
Dirty Mercy opens like We Will Rock You, quickly being eviscerated by the cold war in their heads and the industrial stomp backing, they get down and dirty in the search for mercy.
Pig Is At The Window sounds like the title of an episode of Play School, only they never featured legendary trumpeters like Enrico Tomasso accenting the tale while Pig tries to take it slow.
Body Count sadly isn't a cover of the Ice Motherfucking T classic, but a far slower more thoughtful treatise on the terrible death toll of recent years, slow piano and drums with shimmering chimes.
The album closes with False Flag with deep dark rumbling bass and guitar synths building, they reflect on the False flag operations they have fallen for. What is left on your radar, how can we avoid believing the lies and distortions.
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