#xeo invitation

[cotdfan]

THE VISITORS FROM DEEPSPACE April 21, 1994 (XEO Invitation / Victor Entertainment)

killing an arab 2:47 (The Cure cover) amethyst 4:14 your melody 4:26 earth thing 3:43 (The Primitives cover) summer days 3:28 snow 8:08 blink 5:04 the visitors 2:15

NARASAKI (vocals, guitar) KANNO (drums) Negishi (Yoshitsugu) (guitar) Nagasawa (Tsuyoshi) (bass)

Kurumagi (keyboards) Tatsumi (trumpet) You-Me (bg vocals) Sayuri-K (bg vocals) recorded at Victor Studios / Freedom Studios photos by Yousuke Komatsu scan credit: HAETAE photo credit: Justin Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/2henqXgA5KAlqSWmqBdCFX?si=J-nsl4OoShasDhjmiv6TqQ Apple: https://music.apple.com/jp/album/the-visitors-from-deepspace/1406344661 mirror: https://cotdfan.wordpress.com/2022/09/15/the-visitors-from-deepspace-april-21-1994/

[darthemed]

Pig - Wrecked [1996; XEO Invitation]

With industrial beats, skittering synth arpeggios, bellowing baritone vocals, and fistfuls of samples, Pig’s fifth album mixes new tracks with remixes of older material, bringing them together in a fast-moving release of mocking misery.  Track names like “Strength Thru Submission” run directly into more vulgar fare (e.g., “Find It Fuck It Forget It (Regret It mix)”) with middle-ground found in sexual quipping (”No One Gets Out of Her Alive”, “Silt”, “Fuck Me I’m Sick”).  Thoughtful composition of the tracks leads to interesting breaks of low-mixed percussion against nasty sample selection, while more standard electric guitar loops tend to provide the body for most of the songs.

Dives into harping on a chorus for extended stretches come up a bit too frequently, but the fitting together of the vocal cadence with the rhythms surrounding them goes a long way in reducing the annoyance of that tendency, as does the insertion of female vocals as a counter-point to the growling.  While the lyrics hint at erudition, they usually seem content to go with broad sweeps and buzzwords, which can be disappointing when matched against the careful arrangement of the electronic components.  Despite regularly turning in impressive work in the moment-to-moment action, the album as a whole feels a somewhat aimless, with the sprinkling in of remixes not doing much to repeal that impression.