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Finally FOETUS sounds like REAL music!!!
I have most of Thirlwell's ealier Foetus CD's and FLOW is by far the most melody oriented. This one actually sounds like REAL music. However, it does remind me of Nail with some of the jazzy songs. Don't get me wrong, his early work is not bad, but it lacks certain mucical qualities that allow you to actually enjoy listening to it. Its not my idea of fun to listen to hours of screaching noise all day long. FLOW isn't his most origonal album, but its definantly the most enjoyable. I would highly recomend this to any newcomer Foetus listeners. Then try Nail and Gash. I look forward to seeing Foetus at Slims this June. I already have my tickets.

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Well...it's Foetus.
Okay, for those of you who normally love Foetus, this album might be the best thing to come out this year for you, but for me, for some weird reason, I could never really get into Foetus at all. There are two pretty decent songs on here called Quick Fix and The Need Machine. .... It opens up with a sampled Ministry riff (well, maybe Ministry originally sampled if from someone else...I don't know) and the song is called Quick Fix, which thus reminds me of Just One Fix. The song is cool, especially the breaks in it, but kind of a sad attempt. The rest of the album is pretty much the swing type music stuff, which I can only take so much of. In short, I would venture to say that Foetus is at his best when he's remixing other people's songs, like NIN for instance. He's better in other projects too. Check out Wiseblood. Other than that, I can't really stomach too much of this album. Not bad, but not outstanding either. I hate to think that these aging industrial icons will continue until their 70 years old. Damn, Raymond Watts is what...40 years old? Foetus must be getting there, if not older. I just can't picture my dad on stage singing Find it, F**k It, Forget it! It's just not right. Industrial in general seems to be a fading memory unfortunately.

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brilliant composing, wildly unique vision
Foetus is so crazy. Shamelessly avant-garde. The first song feels to me like it sounds how he thinks people who buy his albums want to hear in Foetus, to throw them off guard. Guitars & sampled Ministry drumming. The second song is different. It's almost like a 60's or 70's jingle in a Foetusy way. Because Foetus is not the industrial rock band people might think it is. In fact, as far as I know, Jim Thirlwell calls industrial the "I" word. So then the third song is one of the most amazing songs of my life. Thickly layered, textured, heavy percussion for 8 minutes with heart-wrenching vocals, a violin solo, & more. The fourth song is toe-tappin finger-snappin fun jazz, like. The pulsing strings in the fifth song are great. So's the grit. Then there's some tormented, twisted, disaffected, apathetic blues/jazz/swing in the thickly composed strange non-blues/jazz/swing way only Foetus could pull off like this. & the last two songs are very noisy, thick with guitars, (one of the songs with a bossa nova beat!) until the last few minutes of the last one are weird spacey electronics & a lullaby. This cd is a wonderful evolution of Foetus. & I he made it as a 2-cd project with Blow. They're cd's you buy separately, but I think it's important to hear the remixes on Blow next to Flow.