#242/1367
June 17 1986
Live Skull
Cloud One
Genre: Post-Rock
4.25 out of 5
Highlights:
Fort Belvedere
Haircut for Pigs
Bell Shaped Heads
This is so much better than the last Live Skull record. I’ve seen reviews that bring up Glenn Branca, Sonic Youth and other Noise Rock bands like Swans. But this is nowhere near as poundingly turgid as Swans nor is it as pretentious and self aware as Sonic Youth. It comes close to both, though.
The Ascension by Branca is one of the greatest experimental noise albums of the era and this doesn’t get to that level but I appreciate what they are doing here more than on Bringing Home the Bait.
Even when they get funereal on “Bootcamp” & “Wallow In It” I fall in under their spell more than reject the pretentia. Stuff like “Fort Belvedere” and “Haircut for Pigs” show where this sound is going to end up, no doubt Sonic Youth grifted this poppier noise for Goo and made a fortune while Skull languished in the underground.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1MRoskMNBA&list=PLeGqzSIJFvAatmNF_dk-d9f_dtBI5tFQR
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