Shaking the Habitual
94/100
This album is confrontational, experimental, and scary. It is amazing. The only album I've ever heard that seems remotely similar to this one is their last album, Silent Shout, which came out seven years earlier. Led by a female lead singer who howls like an alien in a language that resembles English only remotely, the music is carried along most of the time by tribal beats and an assortment of unnerving keyboard sounds, a frightening amusement park ride that is suddenly interrupted in the middle of the album by a 20-minute ambient drone fest that, like a quiet Hitchcock scene, builds tension rather than releases it. At the end of this double-albums 77(!) minutes, you might end up feeling like you just experienced a horror movie, one of the few well-made ones. "Full of Fire," below, is one of the best songs, even though the video is boring.
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