Showing posts with label Severed Heads. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Severed Heads. Show all posts

Thursday, April 25, 2019

The 1985 Listening Post - Severed Heads - City Slab Horror

Severed Heads - City Slab Horror


#68
March 1 1985
Severed Heads
City Slab Horror
Genre: Noise/Experimental
1.75 out of 5

This is worse than bad. It’s boring. Boring, percussive background music. It *might* be okay to have on while shopping at John Varvatos in the old CBGB space. 
It’s The Residents without the wit, aplomb, nuance or artistry. (See: “The Bladder of a One Thousand Bedouin”).

Monday, January 14, 2019

The 1983 Listening Post - Severed Heads - Since the Accident

Severed Heads - Since the Accident

1983 Housekeeping
Severed Heads
Since the Accident
1.5 out of 5
Experimental Noise, Industrial self indulgence. Slightly more listenable than Swans but, in the end, I feel like a lot of these guys would do well to get involved in the BDSM community. Not as music supervisors or providers but as participants and just get their freak flag on. This is the stuff serial killers listen to in their basements.
For no reason that I can decipher after the 6 minute murder opus, “Gashing the Old Mae West”, the group transitions to light synth wave ala Kraftwerk with recorded spoken word in “Dead Eyes Opened” (But they can’t help themselves, as the buzzsaw sounds make their in towards the end)
This album makes little sense.
Although I quite enjoyed “Exploring the Secrets of Training Deaf Mutes”. Well, another word that means nothing like “enjoyed”.