{"id":1555,"date":"2010-03-18T09:59:04","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T13:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foetus.org\/content\/foetus-flow"},"modified":"2010-03-18T09:59:04","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T13:59:04","slug":"foetus-flow","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/discography\/releases\/foetus-flow\/","title":{"rendered":"Foetus: Flow"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Release Information<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n

CD May08 2001 Thirsty Ear #THI 57102.2 Made in the US
\nCD Jun11 2001 Nois-O-Lution #32812 Made in the EC<\/p>\n

Track Listing <\/h3>\n

Purchase Album as MP3<\/a><\/p>\n

\n01. Quick Fix
\n02. Cirrhosis of the Heart
\n03. Mandelay
\n04. Grace of God
\n05. The Need Machine
\n06. Suspect
\n07. (You Got Me Confused With) Someone Who Cares
\n08. Heuldoch #7b
\n09. Victim or Victor?
\n10. Shun
\n11. Kreibabe<\/p>\n

Linear Notes<\/h3>\n

all instruments by
\nJG Thirlwell
\nexcept Hahn Rowe  violin solo on 3
\nChristian Gibbs – guitar on 9
\nOren Bloedow – guitar on 9
\nproduced composed arranged performed and recorded by
\njg thirlwell at self immolation studios, brooklyn
\nall songs written by jg thirlwell
\npublished by ectopic music\/ASCAP
\nFinal mixes engineered by rok sutton
\nMastered by drew anderson at masterdisk
\nSleeve design by jg thirlwell
\nSleeve art directed by steve schwartz
\nPlease visit www.foetus.org and join the foetus mauling list
\nEctopic ents
\npo box 1085  canal street station  nyc  10013-0862  ny usa
\nstay tuned for \u201cblow\u201d, the companion album to flow
\nan ectopic entertainment
\nThanks: daniel langdon jones; sabine waltz; kurt wolf;
\ngenice carrol; brian emrich and alumni of the foetus live bands;
\ndj otefsu; matt johnson and johanna st michaels;
\ndorit chrysler; lydia lunch; and jennifer charles<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Release Notes<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cHeuldoch 7B\u201d also appears on the VARIOUS ARTISTS \u2018nois-o-lution
\n2002\u2032 release<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Reviews<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n
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Jim Thirlwell, aka Clint Ruin, Wiseblood, Steroid Maximus and (more famously) Foetus, has crawled out of the chemical hellhole he apparently fell into some years ago.  On first hearing, Flow<\/em> does as its title says and washes over the listener, who feels he has somehow heard it all before: the usual tightly screwed and sampled arrangements, cranked up high and topped with his ever present, snarling, bad boy vocal.  Granted, Flow<\/em>\u2018s torrent of words is Thirlwell\u2019s 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.  On Flow<\/em>, the jackhammer beats are superimposed over wild and unpredictable bold, brassy big band jazz melodies, high energy electronic ticks, mariachi licks and Hitchcockian soundtrack snatches.  A typical Foetus blast of \u2018in yer face\u2019 confrontationalism, \u201cThe Need Machine\u201d subliminally welds traces of early Kraftwerk into the jukebox undercarriage of something resembling the giant killer chicken robot in Robocop<\/em>.  Also excellent is \u201cKreibabe\u201d, an Alice Cooper-styled shock rocker, Welcome To My Nightmare<\/em> era, where various states of musical madness (from nursery rhyme chime to full metal mastication) ebb and flow over Thirlwell\u2019s treated vocal until a peak is hit and the song crawls back into its corner.  Possibly autobiographical, \u201cKreibabe\u201d is an astonishing, frightening and moving exploration of the effects of mental illness.  Here, Thirlwell drops his guard – his defence wall of lyrical cliches – and comes out fighting.  Flow<\/em> sees Foetus back on his feet and ready to kick ass.<\/span><\/p>\n

Original source<\/a>: The Wire, <\/span><\/em>issue # 208 (cover dated Jun \u201901), by Edwin Pouncey<\/span><\/p>\n

© The Wire 2001<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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If you thought that Foetus, a.k.a. J.G. Thirlwell, a.k.a. Clint Ruin, would return from his self-imposed exile like One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest\u2019s lobotomized and placid Randall McMurphy, guess again. Malicious cliche inversions and dour lyrics like \u201cbuckshot methodology\u201d and \u201ca marriage made in the emergency ward\u201d indicate that Mr. Foe to Us hasn\u2019t mellowed or grown sentimental on his latest CD, Flow (Thirsty Ear). He reclaims the throne from heirs like NIN with the brutal garbage-disposal industrial rhythms of \u201cQuick Fix,\u201d but also stretches out with the \u201cpsychological symphony\u201d of \u201cKreibabe\u201d and the swooning big-band jazziness of \u201cCirrhosis of the Heart.\u201d There\u2019s a cinematic grandeur to Flow, which is elaborately layered with unusual contrasts, like the way Hahn Rowe\u2019s violin slithers beguilingly through the cold ghost-chain rattles of \u201cMandelay.\u201d<\/p>\n

Original source: LA Weekly, 22 June 2001, by Falling James<\/p>\n

© LA Weekly 2001<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Another barrage of brass, big beats and crass jokes.<\/p>\n

Either Foetus has gotten much better at what he does, or it\u2019s been so long since he dropped a major release that his \u201cstyle\u201d has actually been missed. Either way, Flow is a great summer dance-party disc for those with an emotional core built of throbbing, unresolved misanthropy and a burning need for blaring brass charts and snarky puns. This is the best Foetus record in about 12 years. It\u2019s got all the pounding beats and twisted big-band aggression of classics like 1984\u2032s Hole and 1985\u2032s Nail, without the emphasis on guitars that marred later efforts like Rife.<\/p>\n

Original source: Alternative Press, issue # 157 (cover dated Aug \u201901), by Phil Freeman<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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