D.o.A. – Third And Final Report

Throbbing Gristle, “D.o.A. – Third And Final Report” (Mute, 1998; original release 1978)
The title is misleading (there were two studio LPs and a spate of live shit yet to come), but in some ways TG’s definitive summing up. There’s still the gloomy, entropic hum of the early stuff and its electronic evocation of some random condemned-factory hellscape, but it’s starting to congeal into a harder-edged sound that makes it seem as if the condemned factories have now heard a Stooges record and are engaged in some sort of grotesque mimicry of rock and roll. Crucial work.
Try 7, 15
3/18/18