Album Club - Week 54: 14.08.2012: Puscifer - V Is For Vagina (2007)

[Alex_UK]

PLEASE NOTE: I'm posting this on behalf of Welder (John) - it is his choice not mine!

Puscifer - V Is For Vagina (CD and Vinyl) (2007)


http://www.amazon.co.uk/V-Vagina-Pus...0441383&sr=1-2

I must mention that listening on YouTube or Spotify will not do this album justice, nor will playing it softly while you do other things. Get the CD or download in file format from somewhere, turn your amp up to as loud as you can get away with and hold on to your prized porcelain.

I could write pages about why I think this is such an exceptional album. Part of its appeal for me is it takes me from some dusty spaghetti western to a religious congregation in the deep South of the USA and finally, a perfect sample of the band The The.

Maynard James Keenan has always interested me as a musician even if I haven’t always liked his work. Whatever one may think of the music produced in earlier collaborations (Tool and Perfect circle) for examples it would be hard to deny he has a distinctive and innovative approach to his art.

This album is imo his best work to date.

Given its M J Keenan one expects high profile percussion and thundering tribal beats. What Keenan develops further on this album is the use of layered vocals that don’t so much convey a message as add to the instruments although the lyrics have certainly brought a smile to my face at times.

Probably the best known track on this album is Momma Sed which did get airplay on Radio Paradise and is the track that made me aware of the album. It would be hard not to like this track no matter what musical genre you see yourself as preferring and if you feel prone to dismissing this album on what you know of Tool or Perfect Circle then I suggest you start here and ease yourself into what is a glorious sound assault on your ears.

Spotify link: http://open.spotify.com/album/5cgdcZetRMxdoadEXr7Rvz

[Welder]

Thanks Alex. I have got the original post but it's packed away on another hard drive.

[Tim]

Ain't nothing better than Bo Derek's camel toe John -but I'll still give it a listen

[Alex_UK]

To be fair, the Poll was my own artistic interpretation!

[Beechwoods]

You are awful, you lot!

[RichB]

i'm getting a bit predictable on the old album scores, yet another 8 from me...

pusicfer is a band i only discovered this year, from hearing their 'conditions of my parole' on radio paradise.... needless to say i really like this and miss my main system but its really rocking on my phones all the same.

good choice

[John]

I only listened to the album on Spotify so will get this on CD to really hear it
I enjoy Tool and A Perfect Circle so looking forward to hearing it at its best

[Tim]

I'm actually enjoying this John, wonderful soundstage and very dramatic in parts - sounds great through headphones. I will listen to it again before voting, but not bad at all. Not sure it's better than BD's camel toe, but you never know

Oh, its new to me too, both the band and the album.

[John]

John my voting will be late do not want to vote till I get the CD
At present I perfer A Perfect Circle but thats me

[Tim]

Yep, I rather like this John and intend on buying the album. It gets an 8/10 from me