Search - Diatribe :: Therapy

Diatribe's debut release on C.O.P. Int'l.

skarecreau | San Francisco, CA USA | 12/08/2001

(4 out of 5 stars)

"This may not be a magnificent debut, with only four songs and one of them is a remix of the title track. Regardless, Diatribe coughed up a handful of abusive industrial songs on this EP. "Therapy" and its remixed partner-in-crime, "Maximum Therapy", start out deceptively quiet with softly-spoken vocals and pianos, then later erupt into shouts and heavier percussion. (Although I've never heard it, they later released "Advanced Therapy", which is presumably another version of this song). "Tantau" is an ode to road rage (before they called it that), a story about dodging cops and running over a member of the Ku Klux Klan, which if nothing else seems to illustrate where Diatribe's political allegiances lie. The closing song is called "Meathook" -- it's just a minute-and-a-half sample collage that's comparable to "Lu-chow Phang" on their "Nothing" EP."