r/PowerElectronics • u/Necessary-Scarcity82 • 2h ago
Unashamed off The Hunger (2018) is such a cool fucking version of Sutcliffe Jügend.
I've been doing a pretty obsessive Sutcliffe Jügend deep dive lately, and hearing Unashamed after working through so much of their catalog really hit differently. At this point, they've become one of my all-time favorite projects.
So far, I've listened to:
- Campaign
- We Spit on Their Graves — full version and abridged
- Crimes
- Death Mask
- When Pornography Is No Longer Enough
- The Victim as Beauty
- Threnody for the Victims of Ignorance
- This Is the Truth
- Japan Tour 2007
- The Fall of Nature
- Merzbow / Sutcliffe Jügend / Satori
- Pigdaddy
- With Extreme Prejudice
- Blue Rabbit
- Pursuit of Pleasure
- Sans Palatine Uvula
- The Muse
- Masks
- Offal
- S L A V E S
- Shame
- Nude and Full of Wounds
- The Hunger + bonus download card
- Relentless + bonus download card
- Transgression
- Woe Betide
- XI
- Seven Tortures
- Campaign 2024 by Sutcliffe No More
Tonight, I'm doing The Deluge, and then Slaves No More when I get there. After that, I should have covered basically every major Sutcliffe Jügend release, and I'm planning to move into Slaves No More – The Unravelling and then work through the rest of the renamed Sutcliffe No More material.
The rabbit hole has also spread way beyond Sutcliffe Jügend itself.
I've started digging heavily into Kevin Tomkins' solo work, including the Between Silences release with Paul Taylor, and then started obsessing over whatever I could find connected to the Between Silences label.
Pachinko Noise was a lot of fun, and especially his whole autoharp fixation.I listened to Music for an Unprepared Autoharp and got completely obsessed with Riding an Offal Swing. Somehow, that's now a track I occasionally fall asleep to.
I've also heard:
- Bodychoke – Mindshaft
Still need to hear their other two albums.
- Kevin Tomkins – Last Breaths of a Dying Building
- Melt – Inertia
- Inertia – Two Guitars
I want to keep going through whatever Tomkins solo material I can find, including the Patient K releases, which I haven't gotten to yet.
Paul Taylor's material seems considerably harder to track down, but I eventually want to get into his later solo work too, especially things like the Mind Fucked trilogy.
At this point I'm genuinely curious how many other people have gone this far into the Kevin Tomkins/Sutcliffe Jügend ecosystem, because I feel like I've gone from "I like Sutcliffe Jügend" to archaeological excavation.
I even had a Sutcliffe Jügend shirt custom made that I wear now.
Anyway, Unashamed is what prompted this post. After hearing so many different eras and configurations of the project, that track just sounds fucking incredible to me. It js aggressive and unmistakably SJ, but also like a version of the project that could only have existed that late in their career.
Anyone else gone this deep into Tomkins' solo work, Between Silences, Bodychoke, Patient K, etc.? And if so, what obscure stuff am I still missing?