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it-clings - fuck it all

release date: june 18th, 2009

we've heard what you've been saying: "why the fuck should I buy a bunch of crappy fucking cds by talentless hacks just to get my hands on the latest it-clings track! this is total fucking bullshit." and you know what, you're 100% correct. why the fuck should you waste your bandwidth downloading bullshit songs by bullshit artists when all you really want to get your dirty hands on is a collection of it-clings tracks?

that's what this cd is: it's all the it-clings tracks put together into one god damned hit parade of a bitter angry yell fest.

did we ask anyone's permission before releasing this? fuck no. in essence it's totally illegal. are we concerned about this? fuck no. anyone who has a problem with this release can kiss my mother fucking asshole.

although when you sit back and listen to it-clings track after it-clings track you should start to ask yourself, "who the fuck is this angry belligerent asshole? and why the fuck should I be listening to his bullshit ideas?" and to this there is no response. maybe even listening to a legitimate copy of this cd should be illegal. maybe you should have just stuck with listening to all the other safe tracks from all those other crappy cds that you didn't even buy in the first place. it-clings is obviously deranged. he is obviously a grave threat to your safe moral code.

but at least, you're now thinking, that buying this cd will help keep the music industry alive, will help keep artists producing quality music, will make you feel good for supporting the artists behind the music you love and all that other total bullshit propaganda you've been hearing. but really, as soon as you buy this cd the money will be instantly gone, spent on useless bullshit and drugs and booze. probably the money you spend on this cd will end up, through a few ill thought of transactions, right in the hands of the terrorists that wish to destroy you. and to be honest, those terrorists probably should destroy you. you are horrible people!

but guess what, fuck it all. don't fucking buy it. why don't you try to download it for free from somewhere? or get some friend of yours to buy it and then rip his copy of it. just don't buy it off of any of those god damned russian sites. download it for free or not at all, for fuck's sake! what are you, fucking stupid?

track listing:
1. inflammatory for inflammatory's sake
2. what is the moment of truth
3. a helpful bit of advice
4. folie à deux
5. big fucking titties or a fuckable mouth (of the succubus)
6. sacrifice of subscription
7. misanthrope in a general sense
8. mindless brutal apparatus
9. necessary evil (shaxxy mix)
10. what is the moment of truth (demo yelling version)
11. sacrifice of subscription (alt.version)

it-clings website

connexion bizarre

It-Clings is the spoken word project of Squid, the founder of the label Bugs Crawling Out Of People, and is based on a quite peculiar concept: as a matter of fact Squid is not a musician in the first place, he's more of a writer and an orator... So he declaims his venomous diatribes as an addition to the music of several artists from the electro-industrial scene, and has performed quite a lot of collaborations since 2005, with artists such as Pneumatic Detach (with whom he released the full-length album "The All Too Logical Descent Into Madness"), Autoclav 1.1, Fractured, Prospero, Worms of the Earth, Dead Man's Hill, Famine and Shaxxy. Recently, he released "Fuck it All", the eagerly-awaited full-length CD collecting together tracks from each musician he collaborated with. So, as is said on It-Clings' website, now you won't have to "buy a bunch of crappy fucking CD's by talentless hacks just to get your hands on the latest It-Clings track!" This kind of sentence tells us a lot about the guy's twisted sense of humor. A sense of humor you can also find into It-Clings' lyrics, even if they sound very vicious in the first place. The main themes mentioned here are hatred, anger, misanthropy and revolt against the all-pervading mediocrity of modern society, and after some time spent listening to his rants, we have to admit that Squid seems to be a pretty deranged person, but his writings also contain a tinge of tongue-in-cheek humor. Another important point is that he always asks his musical partners to keep his voice clear and intelligible, so the audience can pay attention to the content. Apart from that, there doesn't seem to be any creative restrictions imposed to the artists It-Clings works with: they can follow the path of electro-industrial like Pneumatic Detach and Worms of the Earth do, while Autoclav is more into electronica, and Dead Man's Hill offers us some nice pieces of a more experimental/atmospheric oriented work.

That makes this record varied and without any lull, while Squid's shouting and grouching back up the all thing from the beginning to the end. This album is a good example of what industrial music was at the beginnings and should always have been: powerful and meaningful.

-- Olivier Noel [8/10]

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