Flow: Foetus: Amazon.ca: Music

1. Quick Fix

2. Cirrhosis Of The Heart

3. Mandelay

4. Grace Of God

5. The Need Machine

6. Suspect

7. Someone Who Cares

8. Heuldoch 7b

9. Victim Or Victor

10. Shun

11. Kreibabe

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11 new tracks from J.G. Thirwell aka Foetus. Over the course of more than a dozen albums he has proved himself to be a genre-defying and boundary-leaping artist, stretching from yearning orchestral soundscapes, meticulously organized chaos, blistering big band pastiche and crunching hard rock. Flow is a prime example of his resilience. 2001 release.

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5.0 out of 5 stars brilliant composing, wildly unique vision, Mar 6 2003

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I X Key "burningfield" (tomorrow) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Flow (Audio CD)

Foetus is so crazy. Shamelessly avant-garde. The first song feels to me like it sounds how he thinks people who buy his albums want to hear in Foetus, to throw them off guard. Guitars & sampled Ministry drumming. The second song is different. It's almost like a 60's or 70's jingle in a Foetusy way. Because Foetus is not the industrial rock band people might think it is. In fact, as far as I know, Jim Thirlwell calls industrial the "I" word. So then the third song is one of the most amazing songs of my life. Thickly layered, textured, heavy percussion for 8 minutes with heart-wrenching vocals, a violin solo, & more. The fourth song is toe-tappin finger-snappin fun jazz, like. The pulsing strings in the fifth song are great. So's the grit. Then there's some tormented, twisted, disaffected, apathetic blues/jazz/swing in the thickly composed strange non-blues/jazz/swing way only Foetus could pull off like this. & the last two songs are very noisy, thick with guitars, (one of the songs with a bossa nova beat!) until the last few minutes of the last one are weird spacey electronics & a lullaby. This cd is a wonderful evolution of Foetus. & I he made it as a 2-cd project with Blow. They're cd's you buy separately, but I think it's important to hear the remixes on Blow next to Flow.

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5.0 out of 5 stars His best one so far, Dec 27 2002

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JL (NL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Flow (Audio CD)

This is the best album so far that Jim Thirwell (aka Foetus) has released thusfar, in my opinion. The album holds my attention captive from beginning until the haunting music landscape heard in the last song.
How can I classify this music? It is impossible to do so, it is not metal, not punk, not industrial, not acid Jazz, not a 1940 Big Band gone mad, it's just the creative spirit of Jim, who seems to be getting better and better. He takes you with him on a mad drive through the insane roller coaster of 'The Need Machine', draws you into his own virtual movie where an orchestra paints the story of 'Suspect', he pulls you into his time machine, introducing you to one of the darkest clubs where an insane big band accompanies him to 'Heuldoch 7B', and in the end you find yourself in a the desolate landscape of 'Kreibabe'.
The music is intelligent, challenging, very inspired, it grabs you and will not let go of you until you heard the last whisperings of the last song. Foetus is not some industrial trash band attempting to be intellectual without the necessary equipment to reach that level; foetus is the composer Jim Thirwell, rising to newer, greater heights than before.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A brilliant album with something for everybody, Sep 18 2002

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Michael G. Hannaford (Sacramento, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Flow (Audio CD)

Flow is hands down my favorite Foetus album yet, and here's why:

1) It came from nowhere. Recent Foetus releases have been so uninspiring that I had practically written him off. Flow took me by complete surprise.

2) The lyrics are some of his best ever, e.g. these serious winners from The Need Machine: "whoever has the most toys always wins / they'll genuflect then kick you in the shins / give me librium or give me meth / I'll filter out the nutrients / and cut the rest to mix your Mickey Finn."

3) All of his masterful instrumentalism is at his peak performance. Crazy drumming. Great horn playing. The orchestral samples / performances (I'm not really sure how he gets all those sounds) are magnificent.

4) More jazz influence is always nice, and the hilarious track Heuldock #7b gives us more of that fast crazy death-swing that we want, on top of the scathing lyrical torture of some unfortunate ex (hmmmmmmm... wonder who that could be). Plus the gospel influence in "Grace of God," and the oddball bossa "Cirrhosis of the Heart."

5) The companion album "Blow" with all the remixes is also excellent and makes you appreciate "Flow" even more.

6) While I normally don't like the slow tracks so much (and here the long slow grind of "Mandelay" doesn't suit my palate), the excellent "Someone Who Cares" is a notable exception. Slow and sexy, it makes you want to drink yourself into the gutter with this poor old sod.

Anyway: I see/hear many people repeat the adage that all of Thirlwell's best material is the "old stuff," you know, Ache and Hole and Nail and all that. Those are incredible albums, no doubt, and I love all that stuff. But if I wanted to introduce someone to Foetus for the first time, Flow is the album I would play for them.

Flow rules. Buy it. Now.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A must have
This simply is one of those CDs that you must have listened to. When I heard the first two tracks I was still not very enthusiastic about the music, but as the CD progressed the... Read more

Published on May 29 2002

5.0 out of 5 stars In my Top 5 of 2001
What can I say, really that anyone that would be reading this doesnt already know.... Jim Thirwell is a genius! He underated & underpaid unfortunately... Read more