My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - 13 Above The Night (1994)

My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - 13 Above The Night

1. The Velvet Edge
2. Delicate Terror
3. Badlife
4. Dirty Little Secrets
5. China De Sade
6. Dimentia 66
7. Final Blindness
8. Blue Buddha
9. Starmartyr
10. Electrical Soul Wish
11. 13 Above The Night
12. Disko Fleshpot
13. Savage Sexteen
14. Blue Buddha-Master Of The UltraFlesh Mix
15. Electrical Soul Wish-Miss Hate Mix

I actually picked up this album on a whim at a discount store because I thought the cover was interesting. In exchange for 5 dollars, I was treated to some of the sleaziest, most salacious goth-y music I ever heard. And I mean this in the best possible way, because I usually dislike the gothic sound quite a bit.

My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, as far as I can tell, is this huge band that looks more like a biker gang than a bunch of goths. But, they were in The Crow! Also, one of them looks like one of the Lone Gunmen in the X-files. Does this make it more gothic? I don't know. But they sure make some nice music!

Their sound is full of the normal synths and samples and funny drum machine beat and stuff but, somehow, they manage to infuse it with so much non-wanky atmosphere. They transpose the goth sound from misguided self-importance into something that doesn't take itself very seriously at all, taking the long, awful B-movie inherent in the whole gothic subculture and giving it life! Turning it more into something like Ilsa She Wolf Of The SS than er... I dunno, Saw? No, it doesn't fit but you get what I mean, right?

Some of the tunes here are impressively catchy as well. The Velvet Edge is silky soft and lovely, Badlife just sticks in your head forever and don't even get me started on Disko Fleshpot, possibly the catchiest, danciest, most loveable disco song ever. It has one of those melodies that you want to run your tongue over even though it's probably full of veneral disease. The way the creepy Lone Gunmen dude's voice slides over the breathy porn samples, over the beat and the horns, it really sounds like you're in the sleaziest club in some kind of urban wasteland. It's so good, in fact, that I forgot to include it in the folder and you'll have to download it seperately because it's the king of the album.



My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - 13 Above The Night (mediafire)
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - Disko Fleshpot (mediafire)

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