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Sutcliffe Jügend - Pigdaddy [Cold Spring - 2008]

Pigdaddy stretchers, pulls and bends the Power electronics sound into new & bizarre shapes and forms, With of course a seething brutal/ perverse air to the proceedings but also  some surprising humour and quirkiness too.

Defaced feels like a slowed down waltz played in a rough thumbed manner on loose fuzzed-up guitar strings, with Tomkins vocals ranting and raving, mumbling and showing the odd more tuneful edge too. The title track takes a run-down and belching funk like guitar element and mixers it with grey electronics pushers and  buzzers with  Tompkins sounding both threatening and almost demented cartoon like on top- for some reason he really brings to my mind 80’s uk cartoon Henrys cat here in places. Dirty with it’s sleazy/comedic rickety bed/sex bouncing electronics groove with  Tompkin sounding somewhere between demented carnival barker and psychotic cartoon character. Strangely that’s what Pigdaddy often brings to mind a demented amped up and seedy carnival with Tompkins ushering on one  bizarre character  after another on to his rickety piss ‘n’ shit stained stage.

I was expecting Pigdaddy to be standard power electronics but instead I was pleasant surprised to find that though it’s birthed from that scene this is a far more demented and strange beast. With a really ear for creative and seedy sound making and of course full of Tomkins superb unhinged vocals.

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Roger Batty
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