King of the Jews

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艺人: Oxbow
语种: 英语
厂牌: CFY Records
发行时间: 1991年01月01日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

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When madness becomes art - 92%

This is by far one of the most challenging and difficult albums that I've ever heard, and nonetheless disturbing as fuck, the second album of noise-rock based sensation Oxbow.

Fuckfest had been a true success in the underground, but King Of The Jews managed to outshine its experimentation and took everything further, especially (Sunn O))) buttheads, take note) the guitar tone. This thing is heavier than a fucking army of rabid buffaloes!!! Generally speaking, the song structures stayed obscure and unpredictable as before, but the dynamics were slowed down and everything took a much &bluesier& edge. The drums got a less fat sound than on the previous album, but are still easily audible. Robinson evolved since Fuckfest and got even crazier on this shit (still, you will be able to find differences between the manic, thin tone of the younger Eugene and the Eugene on the Oxbow must-have album, namely An Evil Heat). Noise rock characteristics like samples and tape experimentation are to be found there, but used cleverly, unlike many, many bands of this kind. Here is an analysis of the 7 songs on the album, just to make you more curious, heh heh...

1.Daughter - Starts off with a really noisy wailing guitar feedback demonstration with occasional random violin bursts. An insane scream comesin, and everything fades out, for several moments in which a weirdass rhythm is being played (by clapping hands, I think), then the real songs begins! A straightforward stoner song, with eerie backing vocal choirs. At the 2:29 minute mark everything slows down into a muddy buzzing atonal blues and the vocals get at the peak of hysteria, growls and shrieks (I think that with Eugene there is also a drunken woman). At 3:33 the song gets back into the faster part and so it ends.

2.Bomb - This starts much calmer, with an electronic (or guitar?) sound falling like tender rain over the introduction. A slow and extremely depressing melody is being played (clean guitar!) and there pops again the feedbacking deranged chamber orchestra, formed by dissonant violin chords and singular drum beats. Eugene is much calmer on this, and the lyrics are also pretty adequate for this blues (&God is you, and God is fool!&). In the second half, the song gets almost happy, butsuddenly it stops, just for the melody and the drums to start playing faster and faster, just like the tick-tock of a bomb. Ends with a gospel choir, which is also the beginning for:

3.Angel - Along with the gospel part flows a bassy blues (the result is gold), then the song lets it all on the blues. A woman speaks desperately in the background (&Why don't you just come to me?&, may sound sweet and annoying, but you gotta hear it) while Eugene sighs and wails over the blues, with which crunchy and bonecrushing guitar feedback and an echoing piano (a possible source of inspiration for the later albums of Sigh) get into the ear of the listener. The &peak of hysteria& (a notion mandatory for Oxbow) is still there, and it's fucking ugly, the screeching voice of the woman and Eugene's roars could scare some black metal ass. The song is a bit monotonous, but Oxbow knew how to make it interesting, emotional and fascinating.

4.Cat And Mouse - Possibly my favourite track. The clean guitar is much more present on this than on the other tracks (of course, after a guitar feedback introduction), and the rhythms are the supreme oddball, with bizarre samples (a screeching door) and organ feedback, finishing with a sad, massive guitar swarming groove.

5.Burn - Another monotonous song, beginning with a strange vocal exorcism, reminding field hollers of the negros, with slow, pounding percussion. An atonal riff follows over the entire track, interrupted by church choirs and tender chamber orchestra.

6.Woe - Do not let yourself tricked by the 22 minute length of the song, the proper song is 5-6 minutes long and the remaining quarter of an hour is silence. This sounds like Melvins, but with insanely onomathopeic, shrieking or even singing vocals.

7.Pannonica - The final torture. A drone song, consisting of guitar feedback and a mild clean guitar line repeated in the background. At the middle of the song you will hear also the introduction to Cat And Mouse (!!!).

This would become a gold mine for masochists, but also for the open-minded. Give it a try.

(by cinedracusio@Encyclopaedia Metallum)

Credits

Design [Art Design] – Jim Blanchard

Written-By, Producer, Arranged By – Ox Bow

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Matrix / Runout (Side A): CFV-010-A THEY WOULD LIKE TO HAVE GIVEN UP THEIR MISERABLE GAME S-25213

Matrix / Runout (Side B): CFV-010-B LE SACRE BLUES S-25214

King of the Jews

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