Released on: 8th June 2018
This is the newest album from Londons’ punkiest pork PIG. The industrial outfit has been going for thirty years now and can still boast a healthy and fresh gleam to its content. When most artists struggle to stay relevant for one week PIG has made a career from being irreverent and socially irresponsible.
Risen continues the tradition of conspiratorial guests musicians and the penchant for alure in the form of hidden messages that are only visible to the alliterati. At least there is no back masking however. With Christo, Z.Marr, En Esch, Tim Skold, Marc Heal, Phil Barry, Mark Thwaite, Anita Sylph & Emre Ramazanoglu the Lord of Lard has amassed a sizable cult and their contributions all make this album a much more griller release.
Hammy puns aside Risen is an incredibly dynamic industrial-lite album focusing on deep orchestration rather than strange sounds. Accompanied by deformed guitar tones and the prose of pork Risen is hybrid poetry that morphs between entertainment and a loaded gun. Truth Is Sin after all but happily PIG does not force feed you its cathartic bile.
Decidedly cyberpunk Risen is an empiggened scripture thirty years in the bacon and PIG remains a most iconic industrial act. With the sultry and sensual vocals of Raymond Watts commanding a colourful experience juicy with tonal flavour. Beneath its thick skin the latest album Risen is industrial at its heart, glam in spirit but ultimately PIG in the head.
8/10
