Minimal Man - The Shroud Of...
#208
May 1981
Minimal Man
The Shroud Of…
Genre: Experimental
4 out of 5
Highlights:
Loneliness
High Why
You Are
“Ronald Reagan, I agree!” Patrick Miller howls on “Loneliness” and I know that’s not true. It’s a scream of ironic desperation and pain. That’s what a lot of this album sounds like. Howls from a person going through Beat Poetry/Scream therapy. And thy hypnotic trance of “High Why” and “You Are” almost feels like Orwellian indoctrination. And nothing lasts too long, which is often a problem with this kind of stuff. I’ll be damned if he wasn’t mainlining The Residents at some point during conceiving “Hatemonger”.
You either dig this stuff (the best Residents) or you hate it (the worst Tuxedomoon). This is diggable. But mainly if you want to hear the sounds of a nervous breakdown put to…music?
https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-shroud-of-remastered/305298400
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