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Melvins - Chicken Switch

Review by Noel Gardner

It’s basically a noise album, all told, and not many people, even in the Melvins fan camp, like noise albums. However, there are some sturdy examples of how to make unlistenable sadism exciting herein, along with some misfires.»

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the melvins release 'chicken switch', a 15-song remix cd with a twist. unlike usual remix cds where the re-mixer is given a single track to work with, for 'chicken switch' each re-mixer was given a full album to work with and pull from to create their track (and in some cases, more than one full album was used as source material). the song names were also newly selected by their re-mixer. for the re-mixers themselves, the band picked an almighty motley crew: from japanoise legend merzbow to breakcore king speedranch, sonic youth moonlighter lee ranaldo to dark electro fellow panacea.
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