Battery9 - Strop
Tracks
- Kiss The Machine
- Cross No More Rivers
- Scream
- Vatso Jou Booswig
- Lie If You Have To
- Twyfelaar
- Another Dawn
- The Revised Smokers' Lament
- Turning Blue
- Missing Details
- Wie Wil Pas Hê?
- Score Us Some More Of That Gargoyle Soup
- Rugsteker
Information
Battery9's second album, the one that saw the "Industrial" outfit break through to a bigger audience, with daytime airplay and charting on national and campus radio stations.
Kurt Shoemaker:
At times, Strop sounds right out a futuristic film noir world like 'Blade Runner', or some other film based on Philip K. Dick's works. Tape loops, machine sounds, guitar, and percussion of hitting various objects, usually big metal things, sound effects, and Paul make up the Battery 9 sound. The CD closes with a brief and driving tune, full of B9 swagger and justified musical arrogance... but stick around for the hidden track.
Press reviews
"This is one of the finest locally produced albums this country has seen" (Donald Swanepoel, Perdeby, 27 Sept 1996)
"Strop is potent, blunt and wild, effortlessly mixing English and Afrikaans into a very loud and heady industrial brew." (Craig Canavan, The Star – Jhb, 27 Nov 1996)