Women Of The SS - Women Of The SS

If Throbbing Gristle were to have made an album to have sex to, this would have been it. Tense, claustrophobic but entrancing, sensual and occasionally barbituate (early) industrial compositions are supplemented at times by serpentine female spoken word through heavy treatments.

A few highlights.. The first track, "Oh What Fun We Shall Have" is foreboding as hell, especially with the mechanistic rhythms and the vocals that seem to be issuing commands, though a few well-placed moans reveal it to certainly be about S&M. "Sexbite" swims with layers of what seems to be treated violin as well as some of those Middle East instruments John used in "Sonorous Invokations Ov Brian Jones." "Baited By A Black Slip" sounds a lot like the first track mixed with the instrumentation of "Sexbite" while being a bit more orgasmic than either. "Quaaludes & Cognac" is aptly titled and will make your head spin. "Verboten Voice" is a particularly interesting one, with an ethereal, hypnotic, almost zoviet france feel to its rhythmic treatment of vocals.

All in all, awesome record; highly recommended.