White Phosphorus (Chris Connelly plays Throbbing Gristle)
CHRIS CONNELLY
White Phosphorus (Chris Connelly plays Throbbing Gristle)
Boomkat Product Review:
Armed with tape and a razor, Ministry and Revolting Cocks’ Chris Connelly summons the incandescent, influential spirit of mid-late ‘70s Throbbing Gristle to unflinching effect
’White Phosphorus (Chris Connelly plays Throbbing Gristle)’ is a suitably uncompromising homage to what Chris Connelly terms the “random, tense, scary & compulsively fascinating” phase of industrial musick’s catalysers and ur-agitators. As frontman to some of the biggest US acts to emerge from the nuclear fallout of industrial musick, Connelly knows a thing or two about the sound, yet this is patently one of his hardest solo efforts, ca sort of homage to the greats, such as Nico (as TG also did) and prevailing interests in the macabre and dysfunctional sounds, but really taking license to conjure a record of thee grubbiest early industrial musick styles.
Where his other projects tend to a more camp type of stage theatrics, on ‘White Phosphorus’ Connelly really grasps the TG nettle and gives it a fucking good rub on the belly thru nine fully committed covers. It’s even good enough to get the seal of approval from TG’s surviving members Chris & Cosey, evidently due the levels of coruscating atonality and the way that he throws himself in, everywhere from the sludge of ‘Tesco Disco’ thru the channelling of Gen’s tortured crooner turn on ‘Persuasion’. The nerve-burning take on ‘Zyklon B Zombie’ is a big highlight, as is the appropriately spirit-gnawing ‘Industrial Muzak/Very Friendly II’, and the bilgy pump of his ‘Heathen Earth’ take may well get some play in darkroom quarters.
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Boomkat Product Review:
Armed with tape and a razor, Ministry and Revolting Cocks’ Chris Connelly summons the incandescent, influential spirit of mid-late ‘70s Throbbing Gristle to unflinching effect
’White Phosphorus (Chris Connelly plays Throbbing Gristle)’ is a suitably uncompromising homage to what Chris Connelly terms the “random, tense, scary & compulsively fascinating” phase of industrial musick’s catalysers and ur-agitators. As frontman to some of the biggest US acts to emerge from the nuclear fallout of industrial musick, Connelly knows a thing or two about the sound, yet this is patently one of his hardest solo efforts, ca sort of homage to the greats, such as Nico (as TG also did) and prevailing interests in the macabre and dysfunctional sounds, but really taking license to conjure a record of thee grubbiest early industrial musick styles.
Where his other projects tend to a more camp type of stage theatrics, on ‘White Phosphorus’ Connelly really grasps the TG nettle and gives it a fucking good rub on the belly thru nine fully committed covers. It’s even good enough to get the seal of approval from TG’s surviving members Chris & Cosey, evidently due the levels of coruscating atonality and the way that he throws himself in, everywhere from the sludge of ‘Tesco Disco’ thru the channelling of Gen’s tortured crooner turn on ‘Persuasion’. The nerve-burning take on ‘Zyklon B Zombie’ is a big highlight, as is the appropriately spirit-gnawing ‘Industrial Muzak/Very Friendly II’, and the bilgy pump of his ‘Heathen Earth’ take may well get some play in darkroom quarters.
Boomkat Product Review:
Armed with tape and a razor, Ministry and Revolting Cocks’ Chris Connelly summons the incandescent, influential spirit of mid-late ‘70s Throbbing Gristle to unflinching effect
’White Phosphorus (Chris Connelly plays Throbbing Gristle)’ is a suitably uncompromising homage to what Chris Connelly terms the “random, tense, scary & compulsively fascinating” phase of industrial musick’s catalysers and ur-agitators. As frontman to some of the biggest US acts to emerge from the nuclear fallout of industrial musick, Connelly knows a thing or two about the sound, yet this is patently one of his hardest solo efforts, ca sort of homage to the greats, such as Nico (as TG also did) and prevailing interests in the macabre and dysfunctional sounds, but really taking license to conjure a record of thee grubbiest early industrial musick styles.
Where his other projects tend to a more camp type of stage theatrics, on ‘White Phosphorus’ Connelly really grasps the TG nettle and gives it a fucking good rub on the belly thru nine fully committed covers. It’s even good enough to get the seal of approval from TG’s surviving members Chris & Cosey, evidently due the levels of coruscating atonality and the way that he throws himself in, everywhere from the sludge of ‘Tesco Disco’ thru the channelling of Gen’s tortured crooner turn on ‘Persuasion’. The nerve-burning take on ‘Zyklon B Zombie’ is a big highlight, as is the appropriately spirit-gnawing ‘Industrial Muzak/Very Friendly II’, and the bilgy pump of his ‘Heathen Earth’ take may well get some play in darkroom quarters.
Boomkat Product Review:
Armed with tape and a razor, Ministry and Revolting Cocks’ Chris Connelly summons the incandescent, influential spirit of mid-late ‘70s Throbbing Gristle to unflinching effect
’White Phosphorus (Chris Connelly plays Throbbing Gristle)’ is a suitably uncompromising homage to what Chris Connelly terms the “random, tense, scary & compulsively fascinating” phase of industrial musick’s catalysers and ur-agitators. As frontman to some of the biggest US acts to emerge from the nuclear fallout of industrial musick, Connelly knows a thing or two about the sound, yet this is patently one of his hardest solo efforts, ca sort of homage to the greats, such as Nico (as TG also did) and prevailing interests in the macabre and dysfunctional sounds, but really taking license to conjure a record of thee grubbiest early industrial musick styles.
Where his other projects tend to a more camp type of stage theatrics, on ‘White Phosphorus’ Connelly really grasps the TG nettle and gives it a fucking good rub on the belly thru nine fully committed covers. It’s even good enough to get the seal of approval from TG’s surviving members Chris & Cosey, evidently due the levels of coruscating atonality and the way that he throws himself in, everywhere from the sludge of ‘Tesco Disco’ thru the channelling of Gen’s tortured crooner turn on ‘Persuasion’. The nerve-burning take on ‘Zyklon B Zombie’ is a big highlight, as is the appropriately spirit-gnawing ‘Industrial Muzak/Very Friendly II’, and the bilgy pump of his ‘Heathen Earth’ take may well get some play in darkroom quarters.
Estimated Release Date: 30 May 2025
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Boomkat Product Review:
Armed with tape and a razor, Ministry and Revolting Cocks’ Chris Connelly summons the incandescent, influential spirit of mid-late ‘70s Throbbing Gristle to unflinching effect
’White Phosphorus (Chris Connelly plays Throbbing Gristle)’ is a suitably uncompromising homage to what Chris Connelly terms the “random, tense, scary & compulsively fascinating” phase of industrial musick’s catalysers and ur-agitators. As frontman to some of the biggest US acts to emerge from the nuclear fallout of industrial musick, Connelly knows a thing or two about the sound, yet this is patently one of his hardest solo efforts, ca sort of homage to the greats, such as Nico (as TG also did) and prevailing interests in the macabre and dysfunctional sounds, but really taking license to conjure a record of thee grubbiest early industrial musick styles.
Where his other projects tend to a more camp type of stage theatrics, on ‘White Phosphorus’ Connelly really grasps the TG nettle and gives it a fucking good rub on the belly thru nine fully committed covers. It’s even good enough to get the seal of approval from TG’s surviving members Chris & Cosey, evidently due the levels of coruscating atonality and the way that he throws himself in, everywhere from the sludge of ‘Tesco Disco’ thru the channelling of Gen’s tortured crooner turn on ‘Persuasion’. The nerve-burning take on ‘Zyklon B Zombie’ is a big highlight, as is the appropriately spirit-gnawing ‘Industrial Muzak/Very Friendly II’, and the bilgy pump of his ‘Heathen Earth’ take may well get some play in darkroom quarters.
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