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PAIN TEENS - Stimulation Festival (1992 Trance Syndicate)
noise rock \ industrial rock \ experimental rock
"Whether it was the trained ear of Trance Syndicate founder and Butthole Surfers drummer King Coffee or the inherent weirdness that informed much of the ’80s and ’90s Texas underground, noise rock from that particular region had a tendency to be allaround awesome but also depraved or fucked-up in a variety of manners. Houston’s Pain Teens took an industrial path to noise rock through music mostly composed by multi-instrumentalist Scott Ayers and are further recognizable by the tuneful but psychotic singing/lyrics of Bliss Blood, one of the few female voices of the original noise-rock movement. Forming in 1985 and signing to Trance at the end of the decade, the Pain Teens’ sound was a mix of Butthole Surfers, clanging industrial yet organic rhythms (sometimes courtesy of junkyard percussion), Blood’s little-girl singing style that told tales of serial killers or other societal ills, plus a strange and memorable poppiness that could cut through it all. This is best heard on the band’s fourth full-length, 1992’s Stimulation Festival. The album is a nightmare world of S&M nastiness and other lyrical deep ends, made engaging by tight songwriting and experimentation with guitar loops, tape manipulation, and other effects-plus the Pain Teens’ best statement of purpose, the must-hear opener “Shallow Hole”-make Stimulation Festival an American noise-rock achievement of the highest order. An added touch comes by way of the great cover of the Birthday Party’s “Wild World.” - Gimme Indie Rock
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