Foetus - Vein

JG Thirlwell has turned the idea of the remix album on it's head with VEIN. To regard VEIN as purely  a remix album is to underestimate its intentions and ambitions. This is not LOVE remixed,it is LOVE fractured and reimagined by some of today's most notable artists . It is an immersive, powerful and sometimes harrowing cinematic journey thru sound and emotion . Two years in the making, strewn with tears, joy and casualties.Jay Wasco has created an overture, blending musical elements and recasting and juxtaposing themes until it becomes like a broadway opus with an explosive prog coda.Fennesz has distressed and granulated  the track Pareidolia into a textural dream.Mike Patton unshackles How to Vibrate like the monster from The Host mud wrestling with Hans Zimmer on the set of a Dario Argento film.JG Thirlwell's extensive reworking of his own Mon Agonie Douce, a dizzying waltz that takes us from the cobblestone streets of Montmartre to the back alleys of Istanbul in a roller coaster that erupts into a exotic caco-phonic splendor.Tom Recchion has taken elements from each song on the album and refashioned them into something beyond a mash up, it is more an psycho-acoustic meditative extrusion.Tweaker ramps up the blister on the already blustering Aladdin Reverse.Japanese artist Tujiko Nuriko weaves her magic into a breathing, sinuous remix of the sultry Dont Want Me Anymore.Jason Forrest's take on Not Adam careens between searing breakbeats and fluttering harpsichordal flourishes.TRZTN's turn on the track Thrush, a duet between Thirlwell and Elysian Fields' Jennifer Charles, is a claustrophobic symphonic pop stomp.Matmos' abstractification weaves the Foetus track into a collision of the flamboyant and the unsettling.

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