PIG HEART TRANSPLANTFor Mass Consumption

Label: Iron Lung
  • LP
    18,00 
    Includes 19% MwSt.
SKU: 016765 Release Date: Fri, 29 May 2020

Description

Pig Heart Transplant is the alter ego of Jon Kortland, one half of the men that comprise the surgical Powerviolence duo Iron Lung. Like Iron Lung, Pig Heart Transplant delivers both a vicious beating and violent outcome, however the operating methodology is an entirely different animal; slow, churning, industrial, electronic, painfully percussive, a bureaucratic nightmare of State Power with gears grinding the individual into a hallow shell, perfectly molded into one of Them. This is 1984.
For Mass Consumption is composed of 28 tracks, each approximately 44 seconds long, each song title a 4 letter word, structured in a perfectly palatable way for optimum group adoption and mindless adherence to common purpose. Electronic manipulation, no wave guitar noise, abrasive hammering and eerie synthetic ambience imbue the listener with the seedy malaise of manipulation on a societal scale. One might recognize the pulverizing brutality of early Swans on tracks like ‘Film’ or ‘Pigs’, the pulsing throb of Brighter Death Now and IRM on ‘Coma’ or even Robert McNaugton’s soundtrack work for Henry: Portrait Of Serial Killer on ‘1970’ or ‘1980’. Without doubt a horrifying work of aural terror, For Mass Consumption is the logical result of a culture bent on banal conformity and the futile struggle against its domination. Iron Lung Records is pleased to bring this tormented future vision into the present.

Tracks

01. Drug
02. Film
03. Gift
04. Born
05. Male
06. Numb
07. Pigs
08. Acts
09. Pray
10. Swim
11. Thaw
12. Dull
13. Copy
14. 1970
15. Dirt
16. Used
17. Cuts
18. City
19. Line
20. Home
21. Scum
22. Safe
23. Half
24. Edit
25. Rote
26. Mute
27. Sold
28. 1980