MOG

love clinic with a passion that you can only love something with if you first encountered it when you were a teenager. like all good country grandmothers, mine eventually got a satellite dish, so i saw the video for 'distortions' on one of her fancy music channels. the video was terrible, but that was beside the point. i sat in the recliner and floated in garbled fragility. and so on and so on. their last, Winchester Cathedral, was really disappointing to me, even though i didn't even open it until i had gotten my '93 buick way out in the cornfields. that usually makes any first listen at least sort of exciting. wasn't excited by Winchester Cathedral. new one coming out in october called Visitations. watched the video for 'harvest' tonight. exciting. the video is ridiculous and sort of terrifying. exciting. this is what they say about the tracks on Visitations: "Family" A ballroom favourite, marred by fuzz.

"Animal/Human" Delves into social engineering and impact on human decency.

"Gideon" Raw, neo-12 bar outing with illegal symbols.

"Harvest" (within you)" Laid back and groovy modern classic.

"Tusk (album version)" Intense punk song, about some peoples need to lie to exist.

"Paradise" Very mellow yet emotional dancefloor excursion.

"Children of Kellogg" The lynchpin of the new record. Proto-metal riff,x ylophone and Johnny Mathis-styled segue/coda.

"If you could read your mind" Medieval acid punk.

"Jigsaw Man" Acoustic pagan celebration, contains the opening line "Mother melted in the fridge".

"Interlude" Erotic break-up song.

"The New Seeker" Communal fuzz rebirth with skewed electronica.

"Visitations" Fragile and traumatic set closer. Features the line "One more offer one more lie, are temptations in your life". finally someone is bringing back medieval acid punk. thank you clinic, thank you.

Posted on 09/11/2006