PIGFACE
The Best of Pigface (Invisible Records)
Reviewed by Holly Day

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This double-CD set comes across the only way a "best of Pigface" collection ever could: as a disparate collection of songs that sound like they come from just as many bands as there are tracks on the album. The reason for this is simple-Pigface isn't really a band. It's a collective loosely governed by Martkin Atkins, a collective of musicians that come and go with each new record that has included Jello Biafra, David Yow, Dean Ween, Mark Spyby, Flea, Atsuko Yamano, Scott Watanabe, Beef from Gwar, Becky from Lunachicks, Meg Lee Chin, Genesis P-Orridge, Leslie Rankine, most of the members of Skinny Puppy, Steve Albini, The Evil Mothers, Taime Downe, and, more than likely, anybody who happens to wander into the studio at the right time. The result is a collection of songs that ranges from dance music to heavy scary industrial, spoken word, art rock, and just about anything else except straight, acoustic folk music.

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