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THE GRIEF
12+ albums
industrialexperimentalAvant-Gardepost-punkno wave
about
The Grief are 2 bands: 1) Experimental band from France. 2)A doom/black metal band from Ecuador. 1) The Grief - Greatest Hits : - Breath taking trains smashing through New Orleans at night. Little bastards like James Dean blow through the saxophones of James Chance. One stray bullet kills Abby and she falls slowly to the ground. Jails and jazz bars screaming for reason. Wires ripped out of Zappa’s head. Dripping faucets filled with undrinkable minerals, wet with whispered ritual, rhythms fuelled with diesel, atmospheres padded with contemplative tension. I dream awake. Right from the beginning, in 1984, The Grief screwed everyone because they only made the music they wanted. No compromise. ‘Huis Clos’ - ‘Behind Closed Doors’. Hawaiian guitars on Quaaludes, horns in dead end alleys. Jazz boiled in manic sweat. The Grief could have been the milky titty of the Herbalizer’s youth, or Senor Coconut’s hot brass teething ring. As I write this, I’m listening to their new ‘Greatest Hits’ compilation. I ask myself, did The Grief really ever really have a top 100 hit ? I don’t think so, this is just more of their black humour seeping through. But listening to them I realise that they helped pave they way, along with the likes of Fœtus, the Residents, Hüsker Dü and others to create a dense and gaseous universe, both reminiscent and brutal, experimental and danceable, from some remote corner of France during the early era of industrial and electronic music. Now the horns bre
