Track Listing
1. Pure
2. Renovation
3. Exactly What You Wanted
4. Like I Care
5. Driving Nowhere
6. Birth Defect
7. Broadcast Emotion
8. It's Easy To Get Bored
9. Diet Aftertaste
10. Harmless
11. High Visibility
12. Insatiable
13. Crisis King
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Producer: | Dave Sardy, Helmet | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | Universal Music | | Recording Mode: | Stereo |
Album Notes
Helmet: Page Hamilton (vocals, guitar); Chris Traynor (guitar); Henry Bogdan (bass); John Stanier (drums).Additional personnel: Jane Scarpantoni (cello).Recorded at Capitol and Hollywood Sound, Los Angeles, Californa & RPM, New York, New York.Black Sabbath and The Rollins Band had a baby and they called it Helmet. On its fourth album, the hard-hitting New York foursome continues to pit bandleader Page Hamilton's Ozzyish singing against a backdrop of industrial-strength guitars and drums that practice what Henry Rollins refers to as the "socialist groove," where no one beat in a measure is accented over any other. The effect is similar to that of a jackhammer tearing up a sidewalk: loud and repetitive, but consistently effective.
Editorial Reviews
3.5 Stars (out of 5) - ...(Hamilton's) a master of the staccato chug, the slice-and-dice fill and the buzz-saw charge....Hamilton's style is all about an economic restraint that verges on repression. His guitar lines stretch like high-tension wires...
Rolling Stone (03/06/1997)
5 (out of 5) - After...the muddled experimentation of 1994's BETTY, Helmet...went back to sonic boot camp to reinforce the basics...brutal yet strangely accessible.
Alternative Press (04/01/1997)
3.5 Stars (out of 5) - ...(Hamilton's) a master of the staccato chug, the slice-and-dice fill and the buzz-saw charge....Hamilton's style is all about an economic restraint that verges on repression. His guitar lines stretch like high-tension wires...
Rolling Stone (03/06/1997)
3.5 Stars (out of 5) - ...(Hamilton's) a master of the staccato chug, the slice-and-dice fill and the buzz-saw charge....Hamilton's style is all about an economic restraint that verges on repression. His guitar lines stretch like high-tension wires...Alternative Press (4/97, p. 74) - 5 (out of 5) - After...the muddled experimentation of 1994's BETTY, Helmet...went back to sonic boot camp to reinforce the basics...brutal yet strangely accessible.
Rolling Stone (03/06/1997)
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