Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!EDDIE.MIT.EDU!Love-Hounds-request From: Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP Newsgroups: mod.music.gaffa Subject: The New Killing Joke LP Message-ID: <8612070001.AA06761@seismo.CSS.GOV> Date: Sat, 6-Dec-86 11:14:50 EST Article-I.D.: seismo.8612070001.AA06761 Posted: Sat Dec 6 11:14:50 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 6-Dec-86 20:56:14 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Love-Hounds@EDDIE.MIT.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 15 Approved: love-hounds@eddie.mit.edu Really-From: Dr. GonzoSomeone was asking if the new Killing Joke was as bad as their two singles before it- well, I didn't hear the singles but I'm not impressed with the new album. It sounds kind of like generic English somber/melancholy music. (Like early Comsat Angels) My biggest complaint with it is that the guitar has no real edge like their early stuff and the vocals are being *sung* rather than the wonderful scream-singing that used to be present. It's not a horrible album in general but it's definitely not for early Killing Joke fans. _____________ -Paul Kirsch