Prurient - Frozen Niagara Falls ALBUM REVIEW

[@matheusrosa94]

>wearing the red flanel while reviewing a not low-rated album These were other times.........

[@beeteeinc87]

Before the dark times...

[@tre6316]

I was literally like "wat?! How did he not dig this?"

[@theneedledrop]

#savecal

[@OtherM112594]

#FreeMyWiggaCal

[@nuclearpoweredunicornshitz4029]

Subscribe to save me! Anthony help!

[@lolproblem1732]

Cal Chuchesta​ theneedledrop​ #freemaniggacalchuchestadathotfirespittabuyamixtapeorthedamonwillbuttfuckcalinhell

[@SpoofyZapps435]

theneedledrop #savecalfaster!

[@RandomU5erName]

Cal tried to release his mixtape on *Tidal*. now he must suffer for his *sin*

[@artvjon]

RandomU5erName HA

[@arsenalrules12]

RandomU5erName As we all know, Jay-Z is the head damon of the Illuminati, it all adds up!

[@theneedledrop]

WE NEED THE CONTRACT!

[@OtherM112594]

Maybe you should force the Damon to listen to the new Yelawolf album until he submits and frees Cal. Just throwing ideas out there. #Justice4Cal #FreeMyWiggaCal

[@andrew12awesome]

***** Suicide - Suicide

[@ZAPPED916]

The handshake signs the contract, from the contract there's not turning back...

[@austinharvey5551]

ZAPPED916 The turning point of a career in Korea being insincere.

[@jordonharris9098]

theneedledrop Sorry bud, the contract is chained outside the bounds of space time where god keeps his records of existence. You can't retrieve that contract in your current state.

[@Ceviche4K]

My heart almost stopped for a second when i spotted that red flannel.. then I remembered the good old times..

[@ndx2k]

Dude this Cal story line is getting deeper than Twilight.

[@jonleblanc7578]

This record is about existential/spiritual (depending on what you don't/believe) homelessness; this is what I believe it is and why I identify with it so much. It left me disturbed the first time, but more by the way that it expressed parts of me into words than being traumatized by the sound. It gave me and many others an emotional voice, and that's pretty cool.

[@psiwarinc]

Fans of Prurient might also enjoy: Pharmakon, Burial Hex, Theologian, Nyodene D

[@Phobophiliac]

Silk Road XD

[@robertwinkel5504]

Love Pharmakon

[@turtleisasturtledoes6707]

I really really liked this album. I thought it was beautiful throughout even the pain to my ears during certain parts added to the experience turning this art into somthing you can experience on a physical lever. My favorite track was Poinsettia Pills how that beat kept head nodding kept though that cluster fuck of noise. Awesome!

[@Phi1eap]

I fell in love with Prurient's Niagara Falls, Bermuda Drain, Through the Window and Time's Arrow. I'm more into those synths, drones, ambients, vocals and lyrics than noise. Is anyone know anything similar?

[@ParalyzedSociety]

Difficult. Fernow has is own style. Especially Niagara Falls and Bermuda Drain are epic, cinematic alike works. Sugar Cane Chapel is immense!

[@glasnoirx]

I rate every one of the releases you named very highly, both simply as a metric for my personal appreciation as well as relatively when looking across the entire Fernow/Prurient discography. I would add to this list his album Pleasure Ground (2006) as well as a lesser release of his that nevertheless feels to me to be a great work of creating (and then sustaining) a certain feel/vibe throughout the entire track list, Time Began In A Garden (from 2008)

[@GizmoFan1]

This is genuinely a 10/10 to me. I have absolutely no problems with anything on this album, it's perfect in my opinion.

[@bojanmilankovic]

You should review some Vatican Shadow, Dankthony.

[@toximan2008]

remember your black day is beyond goated

[@shellacSOUP58]

A Pharmakon/Prurient show would hurt so good. Great outro

[@TANOdjNY]

ShellacSoup i just saw, Pharmakon, Prurient, Genesis P-Orridge & Aaron Dilloway, Merzbow, and Marshstepper together in brooklyn last month. it was too dope.

[@shellacSOUP58]

Damn it... that island has it all. Take that one to your grave man!

[@odens.enjoyer]

i believe pharmakons first musical output was a feature on prurients 2007 7” titled Worm in the Apple

[@ThatOneGuy7550]

Such a good noise record.

[@Paul-ss6dk]

*_dat dang deamen all hope gon_* *_rip cal_*

[@Paul-ss6dk]

Marcio Zygmunt * word * = *Word* _ word _ = _Word_ (Without spaces of course.)

[@nuclearpoweredunicornshitz4029]

Fuck you I am still alive!

[@Gorgorgir]

Cal Chuchesta TELL US!!! what must we do cal??? :'(

[@nuclearpoweredunicornshitz4029]

Subscribe to me

[@erroneousdrunk]

I'm listening to this album now. At first it was quite jarring, but I think I'm starting to learn how to enjoy noise and darker electronic stuff. It's scary and I like it hahaha

[@ryanhomcy7759]

This album is beautiful and it actually makes me happy

[@bearboyyyyy]

What bothers me more than Cal being wrongfully imprisoned in hell is that you bought a perfectly good brand new hat and didn't even wear it the entire video. I'm pretty upset with you right now and I'm trying my best to hold back my fury.

[@mehdimoussaoui1712]

The end made me cry

[@edwardmorris3610]

The vibe of this album reminds me of soundtracks for the blind. Good shit

[@bobsbigboy_]

Based

[@brandonburroughs7128]

Jester in Agony is an incredible track!

[@DarknessUnresolved]

Funny how waaay more people want to here some guy talk about the album, than actually listen to the album.

[@yungsouichi2317]

3 years too late but tell me about it

[@myram2641]

When are you gonna review Ghost Bath's Moonlover?

[@JustinBieberFoLife]

L4CUN4 official nvr

[@sharpvonl201]

L4CUN4 official i think it was in a yuno review

[@slendermike3206]

L4CUN4 official THIS!!!

[@davethehostage]

L4CUN4 official He said it was boring. And I'm inclined to agree with him.

[@walidamin1804]

i only watch your videos because of the cal and daemon storyline

[@BannanaForScale]

Bought a Cal Chuchesta poster and got these review notes with it, it looked like you wrote Frozen Nigga Falls and I haven't stopped laughing yet.

[@MrProtatoe]

Would love to hear your thoughts on the album 'Skydancer' by 'In Hearts Wake' Aussie Metal

[@aramgadarigian1450]

Cal is signed on Hell Row. Under Satan Knight.

[@alejandroprc]

Please review Hot Chip's new album "Why Make Sense?"

[@cannabinoid]

To speak to one point, Profound Lore has released ambient and noise stuff in the past. Even well before the Full of Hell record so this isn't too far off base for them at all. Wold has been on the label since about 2005 I believe.

[@GizmoFan1]

cannabinoid what other genuine ambient/noise stuff have they released? Wold doesn't seem like a straight noise band considering they're just an extremely raw and badly recorded black metal band (except on Freermasonry).

[@willsi]

Love Fernow' catalog. Great stuff, man.

[@gregorybertrand645]

Dude, I would totally pay for an edit of all this cal chustea in hell stuff, like edit it into a short film. I would pay $5-$8 for it. Believe it or not it really has me on the edge of my seat, I more looking forward to what happens to cal, than the reviews when I click on the video. Although you video and reviews are great as always.

[@NolantoFlintwud]

Could you do a review of the new Cattle Decapitation album when it comes out? New single came out today and I'd like to hear your opinion on the full lp.

[@SIGHBOY6]

Subscribed and always keep up but this is the First review of yours Ive watched in a few weeks.

[@bb-cn2pi]

Blurthany Facetano

[@NovakiSalem]

This review lead me to what would be come one of my personal favorites. Thanks.

[@ZeekyInc132]

Hey Fantano, have you considered Lil Ugly Mane's new release? Its 2 hours of experimental instrumental hip hop that ranges of sounds from noise to techno. Its currently #4 for 2015 on rateyourmusic.com with a mid-high 3.9. I'd love to hear your thoughts on it.

[@icedpony]

anywhere you can read the lyrics? without having to buy it in physical media.. perfectly willing to buy it in digital for them though

[@pulsedemon]

Fantano I agree with your criticism on the first half maybe not being 100% cohesive although in my opinion this isn’t really an issue, I don’t think this album necessarily needs to be tracks perfectly flowing into each other, it’s noise after all and some of the hard edges are interesting in my opinion. What I do not understand though is why you didn’t like „Jester in Agony“. In my opinion this track creates a fantastic soundscape, a cold, heavy and dark one coming in waves. It leaves you with some room for interpretation. How is this agony experienced? Maybe the waves are repeated gusts of wind during a snowstorm affecting the homeless who are in agony. Just my perspective on the track. Either way thanks for reviewing this, I would love to see some reviews for Prurients more recent stuff too, or maybe even a Vatican Shadow project but I understand if you don’t care for that side of him. For me this is the only 10/10 score I have given on an album so far

[@HamsterHahaha]

Thank you, Spamthony. I love this record, and I appreciate your reviews. Keep it up!

[@a.j8307]

That's a sick album title.

[@jake4435]

i love purient, best noise artist along with mezbow and withouse

[@modestrocker1]

Anton Resident not into ezra buchla?

[@MghUnit407]

Not to challenge you but, Why do you like? What about makes attractive to it? How does it make you feel? I'm curious

[@ikemoon127]

MghUnit407 I can't speak for Jake, but I like Prurient's kind of music because it makes my life an abstract music video of sorts. It sort of puts me into another realm of logic and events, you know? It's like... The sounds you hear on a daily basis when you're just walking through the world is the soundtrack of your life. Listening to music like this replaces that soundtrack with another one. It gives you another world to explore, if that makes any sense.

[@thespungolator3421]

Salvage Edith I get the same things out of noise/sound art. It's like the sounds of ambience on another planet.

[@bradleycoufal2953]

When are you going to review the new Lapalux album?

[@novaki1993]

The weirder the better is what my taste say when searching for music. The only complaint I have about the album is that I wish there were more of the 80s inspired sounding stuff. I kept hoping for more songs like Dragonfly's to Sew You Up but there were only a few on this 16 track album. Still a great listen and I left feeling completely heartbroken.

[@stanleyc2978]

Gotta find Cals mixtape?

[@carlosv9359]

When are you going to review South Side Slugs by Pouya?

[@Lolsoul94]

On a sort of related note, review Samuel Kerridge - Always Offended Never Ashamed yesyes?

[@SomeShows]

Honestly I respect the amount of effort put into this album but it is by far the pinnacle of Prurient's disappointing output to me as of late. I understand the progression and desire to grow but I feel like this album is just trying to appeal too broadly. This is confirmed by people's lack to go any deeper than Black Vase or Pleasure Ground; people aren't trying to reach back and understand releases by this dude dating to the earliest of the 2000's era, where to me, some of the best releases actually lie. Could be my nostalgic experience with his early material, or could be because it's just actually the best stuff. When you juxtapose this album with stuff like that, it'll probably make a lot of sense. Look for the more conceptual releases!

[@TWK987]

It really is concerning how much pride I take in predicting your score based on your review - but I'm just getting so goddamn good at it.

[@ConvincingPeople]

I really should check this one out. Prurient is a fun artist, and if you haven't heard it yet you really should check out Black Vase, if only for how it toys with black metal elements within a very un-rock framework.

[@rascaltuff]

love this

[@zachb4047]

You going to take a listen to Nicolas Jaar’s new EP, Nymphs II?

[@seancerexhe-mcintyre7854]

Hey man, can you please review the latest album from Hilltop Hoods, 'Walking under Stars'? cheers

[@Chevrium]

You should review The Nigh Took Us In Like Family by L'Orange!

[@amphitheatre]

theres a few tracks that have some of thee nerdiest vocals i've ever heard, like straining waife-like gothenburg howling with questionable lyrics, but not metal. but at least 2/3 of it was great, hope to see him at hopscotch.

[@whatlawistheresayingthatig412]

Great review. I listened to some of it and what I have heard so far. I have two questions though. Are there any more artists like this? And will u be reviewing Lil ugly mane?

[@ZAPPED916]

What do think about Thuja?

[@kubahelsztynski5786]

Were you drunk while typing fav tracks titles, Anthony? Nice review, I enjoy this album too.

[@elkincardenas312]

wait why is the red flannel used here?

[@jacobniehaus]

DAMN RIGHT IT'S A 8. I THINK IT'S A 9.5 BUT WHO'S COUNTING? LOL. KBAI!

[@dylanparish8138]

I see that the comment section is already littered with this request, but I want it so badly, I'm gunna have to say it again- We would love to see a review of Blurryface by Twenty one pilots. Never got a review of Vessel when it came out and I (as well as many others, it appears) would love to hear what you have to say about this group. They are one of my favorites.

[@umcarainteressante]

I really really really really really really really need the lyrics for the songs in this album. I feel like I'm not experiencing all the music has to offer if I can't read/understand the lyrics.

[@icedpony]

UmCaralnteressante Did you find them?

[@umcarainteressante]

icedpony Nope. :'(

[@bearwithgun14]

+UmCaralnteressante Buy the CD, the lyrics are in the accompanying packet.

[@Xcel271]

+umcarainteressante To save those that follow the trouble: 1) The Myth of Building Bridges We are Unwanted We are people Rain drops cling to propane tanks The guillotine is sleeping Children pass by on flatbed trucks Children of salvation Children of coal 2) Dragonflies to Sew You Up In August You're overdressed Plywood broken Up on impact The meat is thinly sliced Car horns blare outside Key twists inside the lock Are you going mad in there? Are you rotting in there? Kitchens are murderous places Rough scarecrow Caught on fire 3) A Sorrow With a Braid Windows don't lie Men are with you Bridge lamps spy quietly outside Open the camera What you remember isn't the way it was Red cross in the background Of our pantheon No one scatters to the sound Of coins clattering across the marble floor 4) Every Relationship Earthrise The bulb flashes We are nude In the most important photograph ever taken Frozen in time Before the mirror of the void Glass eyes are breaking The aperture opens Shutter flaps flutter out light Like blinding doves Against the backdrop of the burnt carcass of the phoenix Consciousness is rising Heaven goes silent Rain comes Full of mystery and nostalgia Lucifer At work in the world Beating down On familiar corners In summer we left New York penniless I gathered stoned from the vineyard You took clay from the cliffs I'll make a deal with you The angel never attacks You die first Go towards the light 5) Traditional Snowfall You said I was your favorite You are my favorite I look young but I'm an old soul Thank you I want to rip out your lower back And suck the air out of your lungs And wrap my hands around your neck And collapse your throat And squish your thorax And kiss you The cuts in my head I can't feel Friends are everywhere but I'm always leaving Dismantling us with rumors You have some fucking weird friends Always taking photos and collecting numbers What do they do with all that stuff? I barely remember your face But I think of you constantly But each repetition becomes submission Becomes more abstract True rumors I said I wanted children but not now They stopped collecting the trash Time is destroying us This job of mine is just depression and longing I feel sick again Fleshstone Please don't admire me I'm sick again These fleshstones are bruised The cuticles are white and sting Moments have consequences The devil is waiting Perpetual 6) (Instrumental) 7) Poinsettia Pills I believe what you tell me I listen to what you say I pray that your eyes and mouth will shut And your rigor mortis will relax And you can go to sleep again And wake in the morning And brush the lime off your thin body And fill your cadaver with wine again And blood will fill your heart And you can sing through your spiraling teeth And that god awful whistling sound That siren you call your voice Will turn into God's forbidden music And your suspended soul Will stop rattling these wastebins And slapping your cuffs along the bars Holding out your cup for an extra splash of water To soak the desert of your mouth And soak up all the lime Tell every tongue Jesus is king Tell all the world Nail every tongue The fire is slowly dying 8) Shoulders of Summerstones I held a ceremony for you I burned some of your hair It stank like charred grain And never left the room Floating up the the ceiling Hanging around The way a slave haunts a tree Or a miscarriage haunts a marriage I went to the creek I wish you could have seen my swollen face Distorting the ripples Reflected on the chalky cliffs After you left I grew my fingernails long And painted them red I watched the birch trees fall And crack on the whirlpool escarpment I watched the birch trees fall And crack on the whitewater rocks 9) (instrumental) 10) Greenpoint You don't want to hurt anyone You don't want to burden anyone You just want to disappear You're an honest-to-god alcoholic Waking up again in Beth Israel You left your mother's ashes In his apartment Now he can't sleep at night And wants me to take them What should I do with them? Should I scatter them in the East River? I remember you talked about that The East River isn't romantic anymore you know That's where the suicides go Or maybe that's what you wanted in the end To be mixed together and reunited with your mother Mercury in retrograde Didn't you hear they found titanium in the ocean? And around Sheepshead Bay where it's hard to breathe They're wearing masks Some even take off their clothes But cover their mouths with conch shells Others say they're just doing it to get high Wallowing through heavy waves Eroding Your cheek bones Suck in like jellyfish Words Slide in and out Your teeth are yellow sponges Your tongue a ragged seaweed Will you sink beneath the bridge And leave a bloodless body like smashed masonry 11) Lives Torn Apart (NYC) I just want out of all this Of you Nullified The work of the cross too What did I gain? Like water over the backs of shellfish Green memories of you Inequity sets in Words make the dinner cold Apostles sit around the table Forgive us for our deeds Let us carry on your work Amen I put you in a tabernacle of clay So I could recognize you Under all the caliche Monumental blue Bound Needy You turned water to wine Never Again 12) FNF (Portion one) Out of mythology he come Carbon son The boat bearer His musculoskeletal living face Laughs and agonizes The way out of hiddenness He emerges Warning me The story has no end There is a mystery in the bottom of this Of these falls Who is the gardener Who is it that grills the fish What are those appearances all about Coming through walls Recognizing him Not recognizing him Hanging from a single chain Incense fills the air He releases me from claustrophobia Behind the thurible smoke He sings the evensong And I disappear He was not killed for who he was But for who he might one day become His head in the sands of obedience Eucharist factory of cells Mineral origin Quartz and feldspar He lifts his hands through crucifix Behind the waterfall People come apart The legs of the spider disappear 13) Cocaine Daughter I discovered all the water has gone to your brain Your womb is surprisingly dry How many more children will it take To fill your empty soul There's an anchor at the bottom of your pelvis Like a bald-faced hornet trapped in amber 14) Falling Mask What we do We invite pain It's OK to be hungry Hunger is normal I'll meet you there 15) Frozen Niagara Falls (Portion Two) Out of mythology he comes Carbon son... 16) Christ Among the Broken Glass Under skyscrapers And shopping cart tents Late in the year When the temperature drops Down snowy streets Among the broken glass You can find Christ Feeding the poor With what little he has left Frosted spoons of baby food Pushed into mouths Lips purple with addiction God is here with His son Where the wind cracks blue faces And the makeup freezes Carrying the loads of the poor By parallel canals of ice Down along one of those ripping streets He's scraping together whatever he can Snow ground under his fingernails Cobbling together syllables Over a frostbitten tongue Trying to remember the prayers Frankincense burns in garbage cans Between feuding beggars And vodka nips There he is in his frigid rags Jesus of cities Dragging last year's bells around his feet Go ahead, he says Go before me Whose turn is it with the flashlight Down in the hole tonight?

[@umcarainteressante]

of the Unholy Light of the Unholy Light Holy shit, thank you!

[@lukepalmer4200]

Reviews I'd like Hot Chip - Why make Sense? Ceremony - The L-Shaped Man Elvis Depressedly - New Alhambra

[@tripleraven]

yeah, power electronics. Needledrop finally reviewing an artist i like. I like this it sounds like it would be cocaine death 2.

[@chimchar545]

Are you gonna review the new Elvis Depressedly EP?

[@Neurozumim]

Haven't heard this one yet, but Bermuda Drain was one of my favorites in 2011. But that one was more songs-structured. Great niche industrial pop.

[@ToM872K7]

How the hell did this particular review get so many views? Is it because the album got BNM'd by Pitchfork? Just seems crazy that a review for a noise record would get more views than your Of Montreal, Hudson Mohawke and Hot Chip reviews

[@terminalbungus9566]

Probably has to do with the fact that prurient has been putting out records much longer than those other groups, and has/had a strong cult following. Also if you like Of Montreal, you probably have a decent idea of what to expect from their albums and might not seek out the reviews because you'll just buy the album on good faith; prurient has had ups and downs and huge changes in sound and style over the years so maybe more people rely on reviews to find out of the album is worth checking out.

[@dissonancecognitive1]

speaking of Cold Cave, what ever happened to the planned third album??

[@JadonS]

do you have a bandcamp we can follow

[@artblack01]

What's up with the cover art of this album? I do love Prurient's work.

[@rookiepipe]

Anthony do thoughts on A$AP Rocky's new single L.$.D please!

[@charlieparry5992]

if ya wanna wear the hat Tano, WEAR THE HAT

[@RedAgent2020]

Review The Story So Fars new self titled full length please! Would love to here your criticisms on that.

[@daringlybad]

What's your opinion on Milos new album?

[@gettoxic5016]

Anthony sounded like Kramer in the beginning lmao

[@Obamanotthellama]

Cal is going to sell his soul to the Damon. In return he will drop his mixtape

[@julianneyost410]

Murs new album for next review?

[@bassoonistfromhell]

Sounds like i need to check this out.

[@SirAbyss]

So, that Blurryface album... when's that review happening?

[@scottsmith9002]

Caleb Donovan twenty one pilots? haaha no one wants to listen to poppy trash like that :p

[@SirAbyss]

Scott Smith I didn't say I wanted it to be a positive review.

[@spiderlee123]

You've gotta release the mixtape!

[@joshodonnell4833]

Fuck cal, are you ever gunna review any immortal technique?

[@prosecutorgodot519]

wait... did cal get a record deal?

[@jaydylan3133]

My Morning Jacket- The Waterfall

[@MaadKidGoodCity]

I want to go to Berghain with Anthony Fantano

[@jackrusso7192]

Finally, a good review

[@ChibiChihiro]

Lets give ittt upppp for frankieeeeee

[@griceyvinyl3235]

Review Peripheral Vision by Turnover - came out 1st of this month (or at least listen) you might like!

[@TheOrlly]

why did u get that reissue of the suicide debut bruh? doesn't that have the dumb remix on it?

[@shaunsmith7768]

I got a new hat today too!!

[@nat2r]

Thank you.

[@JonathanFraserMusic]

Review the new Envy album Athiest Cornea

[@10fingerlimit]

Fantastic review

[@GuestHostMike]

Looking forward to the Hot Chip video...

[@lostinthevdd]

I came to this kind of music with those thoughts. My life was already ruined. 8:50

[@orderofytene]

This record really surprised me to be honest. i haven't enjoyed a prurient release this much since the black post society. glad youre diggin it too

[@PecktheTownCrier]

Haha, one of your finest intros.

[@itllallsurviveyou4558]

Not my usual listening, but I really enjoyed it.

[@maximiliant2448]

I gave this album a try but I just couldn’t do it, honestly sounds like an hour of nails scratching on a chalk board

[@TheCheezits1]

Are you going to review Twenty One Pilot's new album?

[@SilverCuckoo]

Video title is misspelled.

[@Diatonic5th]

Skinny Puppy > Purient. This album feels like it's 1990 all over again.