44 minutes, 49 seconds

Jansen Spilles
Speedwingslowthings

Jansen Spilles is Jürgen Jansen and Peter Spilles, two of the dudes from Germany's industrial juggernaut Project Pitchfork. Aside from Aurora Sutra (if you even want to count that band, fronted by Spilles's former girlfriend Patricia Nigiani), Jansen Spilles is, I believe, the only Project Pitchfork side project ever undertaken. Unusual for a band with that kind of longevity, but I'm not complaining. Side projects have become like remix albums--there are just too damn many of them.

Anyway, this album for the most part inhabits a calm, soundtrackish, neoclassical vibe. No lyrics, which means Spilles doesn't get to vent his gravelly pipes. There are some odd moments, such as the sample (from a movie?) of a woman telling someone how he's "the lowest slime on earth" and how he'd "screw his own grandmother and sell tickets to it." Oka-a-ay.

Are we just exporting the crappiest movies we can find to the German market?

Also today:

44:49 Necrotek, Satanik
44:46 Horologium, The Fire Sermon
44:44 Der Blutharsch, The Track of the Hunted
44:44 Grabesmond, Xenoglossie
44:42 Cryo, Cryogenic