Minimal Man is a San Francisco experimental post-punk/industrial project led by Patrick Miller, active primarily in the early 1980s and associated with Subterranean Records. The album The Shroud Of (1981) is regularly cited in contemporary reviews.

Led by Patrick Miller; based in San Francisco; released on Subterranean Records; associated genres include experimental, post-punk and industrial. The Shroud Of (1981) is referenced in reviews.

A poetic, dark appraisal of Minimal Man's The Shroud Of emphasizing its experimental, post-punk and industrial textures. The review links the album's aesthetic to media spectacle and authenticity. Patrick Miller's San Francisco project and its 1981-era sound are foregrounded.

For:Fans of experimental post-punk and industrial music, listeners of underground San Francisco scenes, music critics and historians.

 The album, however, is no joke, and throughout its duration "the King is naked," and its funerary masks best authenticate what the music uncovers about the psychic whisperers who deceive our lives, instilling thoughts that are not ours, leading us away from the straight path and making us believe in blatant counterfeits as opposed to the original, meaning the work of art that we all are, hidden by complacent egoic falsehoods.

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