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A naked woman lying on a bed of skulls, worms, and wilted flowers; if a picture is worth a thousand words, this stunning cover by John Dyer Baizley is worth at least a million...or perhaps just one: summary. The ideal synthesis of the fourth work by Pig Destroyer: "Phantom Limb" (2007).
The crazy band led by JR Hayes returns with yet another devastating album and reveals itself once again to be very much in need of affection. Indeed, believe it or not, many tracks on the album have love as their theme, and in "4th Degree Burns," Hayes even becomes romantic. Amid killer riffs and crushing drums, the American poet recites his morbid and moving poems, winking at Baudelaire.
From a musical perspective, "Phantom Limb" marks the definitive maturation of the Washington group. The typical electronic incursions, enriched by Blake Harrison's sampling of sounds and voices (listen to the last track, where cricket songs blend with the radio), are more than appreciable; however, besides the furious and passionate Hayes, the backbone of the album is constituted by the award-winning duo Hull&Harvey, exceptional in evoking the extreme and delirious atmospheres of the record (listen to Hull's guitar in "The Machete Twins" or Harvey's drums in "Loathsome"). "Phantom Limb" is divided into two parts: the first offers the listener fearsome Grindcore, the second compositions influenced by Death and Thrash, longer, "spacious" (so to speak), complex...almost invigorating.
In conclusion? A raw, malignant, and damn album. Beautiful to the point of making you sick.
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