BODYCHOKE - 'Cold River Songs' CD (Relapse Records)
Formed by members of Sutcliffe Jügend and Whitehouse, Bodychoke was a noisy rock anomaly as powerful and provocative as its name would suggest. Their material was dark, violent, strangely hypnotic and defied categorisation. The band's long out-of-print final album, the bleak and depressing creative apex known as 'Cold River Songs', is now available once again. This unheralded classic has been given the deluxe treatment; the album is remastered to include 3 bonus tracks and repackaged to include first-ever printing of the bands incendiary lyrics. Criminally underrated and underexposed, 'Cold River Songs' is as intense and ground-breaking as you'd expect from a band of legendary industrial / noise / power electronics pioneers.
