Album: Jehovahkill (1992)(Remaster 2006 + Bonus CD + Bonus Track's)
Genre: Psychedelic Rock (Neo Psych./Songwriter/Psych.Folk/Pop/Eclectic) / UK
"Fa-fa-fa-fine", the pop-wise, radio friendly odd track out--seemingly included as a contractual top-40 single-stab obligation--is the only plastic artistic lamprey interfering with the stream-line of what is otherwise a great-white killer shark of a concept album. "Jehovakill", strangely enough despite the apparent (re)sentiment of title, is about the alienation of being human in a sweeping historic context...here and now. "The Gospel According to the Men in Black" w/o the space invaders. & what is most definitively delineated throughout this tour-de-force of 'abhistoric' creative energy tapped from the dawn of anthropological time, is the universally personalized epic story of masculine initiation into any {non-specified} culture of feminism (/dominance of any collective matriarchal ways+means) and even the preternaturally divine feminine mistrustful adversarialism against that which is 'chithonically' male coming into distinct 'separate but equal' power of it's own. {After all, if it is quintessentially female to possess the power to create, then how could the masculine be anything other than ultimately a destroyer, correct-o-mondo-bondo, dear Betty Fridan disciples? } That is the primordial impersonally male struggle for consciousness and gender freeing will toward an individuation of masculine humanity which underlies the existential duress and angst of the over-arching pilgrim's progress throughout. No man can be more than 'adult child' of any culture without realizing that some forms of oppression toward anyone ARE profoundly, basically biologically IMpersonal on some level through his own experience for himself--and the only way to 'be a man' about it, is not to 'take it all too personally'. Weather his culture be traditionally patralineal or otherwise, the hero of this journey finds his way to that ultimate confrontation with the female powers that be in the world (regardless of ethnocentric orientations of patriarchy vs. matriarchy) and at last finds his way to some place of acceptance in the duality of such natural divisions of power, rather than merely accepting the diminished position of either utter subservience to that profoundly basic feminine power or some permanent roll of ambivalent sedition/rebellion against it. Yes, sounds like a lot to take in, does it not? & yet it is clear enough that like this life of any degree of humanity itself, there is only one (other) way out, if one is to truely experience any freedom from it by more than mere 'merry meet & marry part' happenstance before one 'passes on' to any next 'incarnations'--whether what's next be merely ashen dust or not. Listen and enjoy--skip "Fa-fa-fa-[tra-la-la la-la]" if you're so inclined to concentrate on that most proforma meat at the heart of personal gender culture of orient vs. sexuality's metaphysic matter and if you don't miss it...you may find yourself having a completely intensive experience you may well regard as all your own which can only be delivered by a well seasoned artist of the off-beat which truely deserves 5 stars without the silly self-indulgent formulaic side-track. Most of all, however, 'be mused' dear post-modern ladies and gents--and properly amazed that such deeply 'archetypal' themes have been so boldly woven into the tapestry of an album of brilliant experience which Carl Jung himself would surely be no less amazed to find in this world of ours. Whether he liked rock & roll or no! If you're already into The Teardrops, I recommend moving on to "World Shut Your Mouth" & "Fried" next, and if you're completely uninitiated into the "Wilder" ex-centrist and ever-increasingly eclectic rock world of the 'St. Julian', "Arch Drude of Wessex" at least start with pt. I of the trilogy: Peggy Suicide, but if you're caught up in the current already...dive right into the socio-philosophically predatory end of the Pool. Review by "strangecharm" (Rate Your Music).
RATING: 8 / 10
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Genre: Psychedelic Rock (Neo Psych./Songwriter/Psych.Folk/Pop/Eclectic) / UK
"Fa-fa-fa-fine", the pop-wise, radio friendly odd track out--seemingly included as a contractual top-40 single-stab obligation--is the only plastic artistic lamprey interfering with the stream-line of what is otherwise a great-white killer shark of a concept album. "Jehovakill", strangely enough despite the apparent (re)sentiment of title, is about the alienation of being human in a sweeping historic context...here and now. "The Gospel According to the Men in Black" w/o the space invaders. & what is most definitively delineated throughout this tour-de-force of 'abhistoric' creative energy tapped from the dawn of anthropological time, is the universally personalized epic story of masculine initiation into any {non-specified} culture of feminism (/dominance of any collective matriarchal ways+means) and even the preternaturally divine feminine mistrustful adversarialism against that which is 'chithonically' male coming into distinct 'separate but equal' power of it's own. {After all, if it is quintessentially female to possess the power to create, then how could the masculine be anything other than ultimately a destroyer, correct-o-mondo-bondo, dear Betty Fridan disciples? } That is the primordial impersonally male struggle for consciousness and gender freeing will toward an individuation of masculine humanity which underlies the existential duress and angst of the over-arching pilgrim's progress throughout. No man can be more than 'adult child' of any culture without realizing that some forms of oppression toward anyone ARE profoundly, basically biologically IMpersonal on some level through his own experience for himself--and the only way to 'be a man' about it, is not to 'take it all too personally'. Weather his culture be traditionally patralineal or otherwise, the hero of this journey finds his way to that ultimate confrontation with the female powers that be in the world (regardless of ethnocentric orientations of patriarchy vs. matriarchy) and at last finds his way to some place of acceptance in the duality of such natural divisions of power, rather than merely accepting the diminished position of either utter subservience to that profoundly basic feminine power or some permanent roll of ambivalent sedition/rebellion against it. Yes, sounds like a lot to take in, does it not? & yet it is clear enough that like this life of any degree of humanity itself, there is only one (other) way out, if one is to truely experience any freedom from it by more than mere 'merry meet & marry part' happenstance before one 'passes on' to any next 'incarnations'--whether what's next be merely ashen dust or not. Listen and enjoy--skip "Fa-fa-fa-[tra-la-la la-la]" if you're so inclined to concentrate on that most proforma meat at the heart of personal gender culture of orient vs. sexuality's metaphysic matter and if you don't miss it...you may find yourself having a completely intensive experience you may well regard as all your own which can only be delivered by a well seasoned artist of the off-beat which truely deserves 5 stars without the silly self-indulgent formulaic side-track. Most of all, however, 'be mused' dear post-modern ladies and gents--and properly amazed that such deeply 'archetypal' themes have been so boldly woven into the tapestry of an album of brilliant experience which Carl Jung himself would surely be no less amazed to find in this world of ours. Whether he liked rock & roll or no! If you're already into The Teardrops, I recommend moving on to "World Shut Your Mouth" & "Fried" next, and if you're completely uninitiated into the "Wilder" ex-centrist and ever-increasingly eclectic rock world of the 'St. Julian', "Arch Drude of Wessex" at least start with pt. I of the trilogy: Peggy Suicide, but if you're caught up in the current already...dive right into the socio-philosophically predatory end of the Pool. Review by "strangecharm" (Rate Your Music).
RATING: 8 / 10
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