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Buyer Rating: 100.0% positive (3 ratings)

Autechre - Draft 7.30 - 05-Dec-07 07:12 AM
Although I agree that this is their finest work to date, I don't agree with the "cold, sterile" description the previous reviewer gave. This is actually quite a perfect blend of all of their phases over the years. You can hear the melodic work of LP5 in tracks like "Reniform Puls". There is an almost Tri Repetae rhythm section during the first half of "Surripere". The Confield-like rigidity of "6ie.Cr". Chiastic Slide, EP7, Gantz Graf, and even Amber are all represented prominently here. I find this to be their most rich and rewarding work. It is comfortable and familiar, yet exciting and fresh. Without a doubt, my hands-down all-time absolute favorite from Ae.

Ministry - Rio Grande Blood - 09-Oct-06 12:29 PM
I'd like to offer a counterpoint to the very narrow review the previous poster gave. Jourgensen's work since Psalm 69 has been incredible. Filth Pig completely revamped the bands sound, and in quite a few people's opinions (mine included), stands as possibly their best LP. This release is no exception. The music is possibly the most raw and venemous material Al has composed. The political agenda behind the music is very spot-on. It seems to me that he has found a new youth and vitality in the post-Barker material. It's a horse of a different color, for sure, but it's not different from their transition from synth pop to industrial dance, or from that to industrial metal into dark psychadelic metal into (now) thrash. Ministry, like Skinny Puppy, is great because you never get the same album twice.