CD Reviews

• Deaf Sparrow
  Go to Google and enter the search query "Motorhead meets Discharge". You will get lots and lots of results. Some, like Disfear, will be very accurate. Others will be so off the mark they are of the WTF nature. Yours truly has been known to indulge in such antics too and I will do so in this very review too.
  
  Coitus definitely has taken inspiration from both bands. You know the drill; dirty punk, steady beats, drunken rough vocals, metallic spirit, lo fi production. All the actual traits that metalheads want to take as their own. Anyway, this compilation is quite excellent. I am just very surprised that in this day and age (what with the huge fand free flow of info) I was not aware of Coitus. With a most excellent moniker like that, how did they fly by without leaving some droppings in my abode? Even with today's technology when no one, even the shittiest of acts, fails to go unnoticed. Maybe it is the fact that Coitus split in 1996 and who but a committed label like Underground Movement wants to push expired acts, right?
  
  Coitus was an English trio that formed in 1986. They belonged to the squatter punk scene and their sound is what you would expect from a band inhabiting those surroundings. Their songs are basic and simplistic. Short and not so short (some songs break the six minute mark) bursts of energy (not necessary negative nor fully irate and actually quite melodic, like in the excellent "Commando") based around a punk groove rhythm. Preferably, a dirty and grimey rhythm, only colored by one string solos and vocals that are this close to blowing the wart off Lemmy's face. As a matter of fact, Coitus have such a basic approach to music that they make Motorhead sound like Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Their songs have the drive of a maniac at the wheel. Their music trudges on regardless of the technical difficulties that may stand on the way.
  
  Fucked Into Oblivion - Complete Discography 92-96, is just that. And as such, counting two discs, forty tracks and over two hours and fifteen minutes of music it may be better imbibed in a couple of sittings. From foreplay to consummation and even birth of the offspring, the label has not spared one moment in the band's career. The second disc contains material released between 1992 and 1996. Some of the songs are clearly thrashier with a thicker metallic vibe but what's evident is thatthrough it all Coitus never lost its original sound and spirit. For bands like this, evolution is a dirty word. Adding a literal meaning to the term gutter punk, the liner notes claim that the last tracks on each disc were recorded in a toilet. They sound like it.
  
  4/5