Whitehouse

Crijevo, Nov 13, 2006

Whitehouse seem more friendly with their aesthetic sleeve art that bears only little of their sonic image, regularly screaming of painful obscenity - if someone ever created sound as pure reflection of mass murderers and sadists alike, then Whitehouses is one of the truest soundtracks to most extreme of human conditions. Obsessed/fascinated with anything atrocious, Whitehouse project our worst nightmares - those of torture and pain - take Another Crack of the White Whip compilation, at its best challenging you to put yourself at risk to any of this sets positions; You Dont Have To Say Please, the compilations opening track serves exactly the purpose to insult and humiliate - basically using bizarre image of S/M nature; you dont have to say please, get down on your knees, suck my cock, you dont have to say please! - but where S/M seems to be an intimate, cosy experiment between partners, here it is pure agony of oneselfs dominating over the other, without mercy, pounding like a hammer over bruised flesh, over and over again until chucks of meat are left. The Wire magazine recently reviewed one of Whitehouses current affairs saying - this is music for people who hate themselves. The truth lies there somewhere... Effective execution but impossible to associate with unless youre a self-destructive nutter.

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