Review by KosieKat for God - The Anatomy of Addiction (1994)

OH BOY . What an album, what a journey.  You know, I started this listen very optimistic, the first track, I thought, hey, this isn't too bad, kinda rough production, underground sounding, experimental, lets keep going......but...it got worse not better, or even the same... The kazoo sounds in Body Horror  were a brave choice really but honestly were far better executed Frank Zappa when he used them. ( yes I know its actually a clarinet but its recording or technique or something left much to be desired) and then whatever followed in Lazarus that sounded sort of like a bad didgeridoo. The only piece after the opener that I didn't cringe during was Bloodstream ( before the minute and a half of heartbeat over violin pulls). As I continued to listen I had to wonder, " Is there only one  bass riff on this album?" Maybe, it felt like it. There was so little variation of it when it was featured that  i can still here the do do- do do do. pattern . ON driving the demons out I happened to exclaim outloud " OH BONGOS"  and my husband replied " Whats astonishing is no matter how many instruments you play, if you play them badly, its still bad and it doesn't matter if they keep adding more" honestly. That really resonated with me as I pondered what was happening. That sentence ties together this album pretty well as a thought. I actually LIKE noise, in general, but the composition of a lot of these tracks did not work for me as it felt forced and kind of pretentous when I listened to it. The sound was raw in a way like you didn't bake your chicken long enough, not in a way that made me feel any real emotion which was dissapointing for something that had so many people worked on in this outfit. After this album the only thing this band produced were some live albums. I looked into it becuase I had to see what was going on with them. Most of the band members don't even have wiki pages. or if they do they say " This person worked with Martin on God and maybe one of his other projects". Aside from Broaderick who is well known in his own right for Godflesh ( which is a much better outfit) and Martin himself who unfortunately went on to continue making music, although he shifted into calling himself The Bug and focused on becoming more of an electric/ dubstep guy. I gave this one star for really going for something here in the way that an elementry teacher gives all the students a gold star for trying their best. Good effort there boys. Go ahead though and keep the day jobs.