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- Summary: J.G. Thirlwell's first album as Foetus in four years finds the industrial pioneer back with eleven new tracks and another monosyllabic title.
- Record Label: Thirsty Ear
- Genre(s): Rock, Industrial
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Mixed: 1 out of 6
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Flow demonstrates that industrial music remains potent and vital in the early 2000s, and that one of its greatest pioneers is still one of its greatest innovators.
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The WireGranted, Flow's torrent of words is Thirlwell's familiar angsty blurt of near operatic proportions, but closer attention reveals his skill as an arranger, producer and rhythm sampler is now verging on the monumental. [#208, p.57]
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Alternative PressThis is the best Foetus record in about 12 years. [Aug 2001, p.88]
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The downside here will be fairly obvious to anyone familiar with Thirlwell's previous output. While Flow's integration of big band jazz and other "external" musical styles is some of Thirlwell's most accomplished work to date -- creditable not only to better technology, but to the growth of his already respectable skills as a conventional composer -- its thematic elements remain the same.
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It's a solid return to form.
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Hugely exciting one minute, unlistenable the next and far too much to handle in a single sitting, Thirlwell's noise addiction can still make Trent Reznor seem like a pussycat.
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Jan 21, 2012
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