Release Information
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Released & Distributed through Ectopic Ents 9/29/2010
Initial CD quantities of HIDE include a 5″ x 5″ sticker of the front cover, signed by JG Thirlwell.
Track Listing
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01. Cosmetics
02. Paper Slippers
03. Stood Up
04. Here Comes The Rain
05. Oilfields
06. Concrete
07. The Ballad of Sisyphus T. Jones
08. Fortitudine Vincimus
09. You’re Trying To Break Me
10. O Putrid Sun
Release Notes
HIDE features ten new compositions by JG Thirlwell, who describes it as a “neo-symphonic avant-psychedelic concept album informed by the culture of fear”. Kicking off with a nine minute operatic opus featuring the guest vocal talents of opera singer Abby Fischer, HIDE is an immersive album infused with strands of progressive and contemporary classical, as well as Thirlwell’s twisting cinematic journeys, bombast and sombre interludes.
Thirlwell produced the album and performs most of the music. Also guesting on the album are long time collaborator Steven Bernstein on trumpet and Leyna Marika Papach from Thirlwell’s Manorexia ensemble on violin. In addition Elliot Hoffman of Carbomb plays drums on a track, and there are appearances from Ed Pastorini, Jeff Davidson and Christian Gibbs (Lucinda Blackbear).
Reviews
‘Hide’ unquestionably marks yet another fantastic addition to the already astounding Foetus catalogue, and is one of those albums that demands repeat listening, and lots of it
Christopher Nosnibor –whisperinandhollerin.com
Ambitious, overwhelming, rough, rugged…. saddle up for a blaze into a flawed but ambitious psychedelic opera.
Over the course of his career, Jim Thirlwell has hugely expanded his repertoire with his Manorexia and Steroid Maximus projects as well as soundtrack work……
…However, no matter what sideline work he does, when he comes back to Foetus it is a guarantee that the music will be brilliant. His role as a composer has fed progressively more into Foetus (fitting considering the seeds of Manorexia were sown and germinated in earlier Foetus albums) and Hide has a much wider scope than previously encountered.
John Kealy –Brainwashed.com
