Drummer extraordinaire
Martin Atkins (
PiL) joined the existing trio of
Jaz Coleman,
Geordie Walker and
Paul Raven for
Killing Joke's ninth album, a release that thankfully washed away the awful memory of
Outside the Gate (1988). It was a return to the heavier sound, taking a slightly evolved form of the early riffage and putting more emphasis on the industrial side of things, all the while keeping the melodies and madness that underpinned much of that early work.
Taken on its own merits, it's a decent album from the era that'll please fans but will be unlikely to win
KJ many new ones. From the other perspective, judged alongside past albums, it'd fit on the Not-Their-Best-but-Not-Their-Worst shelf.
Songs of Note:
Money is Not Our God;
Age of Greed
3 painful, painful truths out of 5
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