Limb, Foetus
In the game of who is Melbourne's finest art-hardened, ex-pat musician - of who best represents our internationalist lust for experimental pop-art success - favourites Nick Cave, the Liars and HTRK all spectacularly lose to J.G. Thirwell, aka Foetus. Since immigrating to London in 1978, Thirwell has worked unceasingly and never far from the centre of exciting music - from late '70s London's Swell Maps and synth groups, Lydia Lunch and Swans' '80s New York rock underground, Industrial production during the '90s and more recently soundtrack projects for the Cartoon Network and solo as Steroid Maximus.
Limb collects some of Thirwell's earliest work, recorded in London squats between 1980-82. The twelve tracks included are profound conflations of modern composition's loftier ideas and today's acceptance of DIY recording technique, from which Thirwell emerges as a genius of garage art music thirty years ahead of his time. Tracks 'The Anxious Figure' and 'That We Forbid' cut snippets of old records in real-time to disorientating effect. 'Primordial Industry' and 'Industrial Go-Slow' are beautiful, fast-hammering piano patterns and 'Piano Piece' is a blissful, taped keyboard Head mix. Lest we never forget J.G. Thirwell.
Release: Album
To Cure: A predictable playlist
Keywords: Experimental, Garage, Art
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