McCartney's lyrics are weaker than his frail vocals which have been clumsily and obtrusively enhanced.
Derivative in the extreme, this style of grungy alt-rock is irrelevant, anachronistic, and in this instance owes its existence to nepotism.
The formative industrial band Throbbing Gristle was fascistic and representative of the rejection of logic. Similarly to William S. Burroughs, they asked the questions: What about death, senseless violence, sex? What about all those things at once?
They possessed no valuable insight into any of these topics, presenting absurdly evil scenarios with no context. Labelled by a British parliamentarian 'the wreckers of civilization' (they don't deserve to sound that cool), the ... read more