PUSCIFER 黑胶唱片和CD

Review: For those not in the know, Puscifer is the brainchild of Tool/A Perfect Circle vocalist Maynard James Keenan; an outlier side-project designed as "simply a playground for the various voices in my head, a space with no clear or discernible goals, where my Id, Ego, and Anima all come together to exchange cookie recipes." With each of their four full-lengths to date taking completely different sonic shapes, the release of the project's 2007 debut "V" Is for Vagina perplexed, bemused, enthralled and infuriated fans in equal measure upon its initial release. Bending ambient trip-hop machinations and industrial atmospherics around Keenan's lush croons, and enlisting a frankly obnoxious list of collaborators and co-conspirators such as Tool/Kyuss producer Joe Barresi, Primus drummer Tim Alexander, Alain Johannes and former Dillinger Escape Plan drummer Gil Sharone (to name only a select handful), this reissue welcomes both the devout and unfamiliar to visit Keenan's most artistically unrestrained work in its purest form. If 'Queen B' doesn't put you into a vibe trance, are you even human?

Review: Maynard James Keenan's Puscifer project has been giving the fans the good stuff since those heady days of lockdown by upping the ante on live stream performance. Even now they're back to real-world touring, they're continuing to explore the medium of reaching millions of fans globally by revisiting specific eras of the band's history. Parole Violator is the soundtrack to their filmed performance from the Wiltern Theatre in LA, and it finds them revisiting tracks from 2011's Conditions Of My Parole and giving them a fresh perspective. From acoustic renditions to heavenly new arrangements, there's a lot to savour for the devoted fans of Puscifer.