REVOLTING COCKS

SEXO OLYMPICO
13th Planet/Megaforce Records

Uncle Al is not resting one bit after retiring his genre defining band MINISTRY, no sir, he is right back at it manning the helm of the spectacle that is REVOLTING COCKS. Most of the world will have to wait until October 14th until the new REVCO is released but MOVEMENT received an advance copy this week and it is devilishly addictive. I haven't been able to get it out of my player since it came in! This shit is good! Granted I've loved REVCO since the early days when they made Harley David a Son of a Bitch and "Beers, Steer and Queers" a dance floor hit and I am admittedly an age old fan of all things Jourgensen since the days of With Sympathy, so I am perhaps a tad bias. But to be honest I have not been a fan of the more recent REVCO releases, they seemed to loose focus and failed to impress or inspire. Perhaps because Al was in the process of pulling MINISTRY out of a similar creative slump. So a month or so ago we received an early advance MP3 of the REVCO track "I'm Not Gay" and I was beyond pleased to hear an unexpectedly fresh sound from the COCKS. More upbeat and club friendly than usual yet still with the comfortably familiar pounding beats, crunching guitar and reverberating vocals REVCO I've come to expect. The entire album follows equally in step with that single. Every track on SEXO OLYMPICO is a Dance-Industrial Rock gem, from the opening track of "Hookerbot 3000" to the closing Disco a Go Go "Hookerbot 3000" mix. But particular favorites are the guaranteed club fav "Cousins" (my personal fav of the entire dic), the cheeky "I'm Not Gay," the groovy and atmospheric "Touch Screen," and the extra long (over 7 minute) "Wizard of Sextown" that I can only best describe as sounding like the Deftones covering Ministry covering Bauhaus. Its just brilliant. So until October you will have to wait, but the wait will be worth it. Thanks Uncle Al for spawning a new era for the COCKS! I can't wait to see hear it all LIVE!

- Max Michaels