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LAMBHOUSE
(Relapse)
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After a short break that saw frontman Chris Spencer head to the West Coast to start the Cutthroats 9, veteran NYC noise-rockers Unsane are back in action. They’re also back in stores with this exhaustive greatest-hits album, a look back at their caustic reign as one of the most abrasive acts of the 1990s. Cult heroes by design, they nevertheless infiltrated the mainstream with the video for "Scrape," a lo-fi montage of skateboard wrecks that became an unlikely MTV hit. "Scrape" is from the 1995 disc Scattered, Smothered & Covered, the only one of the band’s four studio albums that remains in print and the only one they recorded for the storied scuzz-rock label Amphetamine Reptile. After that, they moved on to metal powerhouse Relapse and teamed up with Marilyn Manson producer D. Sardy: on latter-day triumphs like "Sick," Spencer’s rage is tightly focused yet still bursting at the seams. Lambhouse is arranged in reverse chronological order, its 24 tracks winding all the way back to the group’s obtuse, Sonic Youth–inspired beginnings on Matador. And just like every other Unsane release, it has a gruesome, blood-soaked album cover to preface all the artful violence inside.
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