Twenty years on, Prurient's Pleasure Ground returns in the edition it always wanted. This is the hinge record in Dominick Fernow's catalogue, the one that opened the electronic chapter of the project: the scorched power-electronics of the early years meeting synth tones, slow doom weight and the meditative cold of Nordic black metal. Recorded in a single day, 14 February 2006, it first surfaced as a self-released double cassette sold at Carlos Giffoni's No Fun Fest in New York, then arrived in shortened form on Rhode Island's Load Records the following year. Four long pieces, from the high-pitched battery of "Military Road" to the haunted descending piano of "Apple Tree Victim", carry the bile of Whitehouse and a bleak, almost devotional beauty in the same breath. "Does our death turn you on?" is still the question at its centre.
This 20th anniversary edition on Hospital Productions comes on clear smoke vinyl with a new audio restoration, a subtly reworked layout and a poster, digital download code included. A genuine cornerstone of American noise, and not one to let slip past.
Released March 2021 on Load Records.
TRACKLIST:
A1. Military Road
A. Earthworks / Buried In Secret
B1. Outdoorsman / Indestructible
B2. Apple Tree Victim
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