47 minutes, 49 seconds

Sol Invictus
Lex Talionis

I doubt many Sol Invictus fans feel the same way, but the first few recordings they made, including this one...uh, what's the word I'm looking for here...uh...suck. (Apologies to Jon Stewart.) I don't think they found a proper footing until the Trees in Winter album, their third, depending on how you count. Part of it is the plodding songwriting--say what you will about the lyrics to "Abbatoirs of Love," but it's otherwise a tuneless, dreary mess. And I don't share the love of Ian Read's voice that others seem to. Not that Tony Wakeford is such a smashing vocalist either, but Read makes Wakeford sound like Liz freakin' Fraser.

Also today:

47:47 Pieter Nooten & Michael Brook, Sleeps with the Fishes
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47:47 Vomito Negro, Human
47:46 John Foxx & Harold Budd, Translucence
47:45 Michael Cashmore, Sleep England