PAIN TEENS Destroy Me, Lover

by Bliss Blood

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Harn1127 Awesome band that deserves more love. Truly underrated. Favorite track: Tar Pit.

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1.	Cool Your Power 02:39	info	buy track
2.	Prowling 03:05	info	buy track
3.	Tar Pit 03:51	info	buy track
4.	RU 486 03:35	info	buy track
5.	Dominant Man 04:14	info	buy track
6.	Sexual Anorexia 03:18	info	buy track
7.	Lisa Knew 04:09	info	buy track
8.	Body Memory 06:25	info	buy track
9.	The Story of Isaac 05:00	info	buy track
10.	Shock Treatment 05:38	info	buy track

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This is a translation from the original French:

Pain Teens is an American noise rock band formed in the 1980s around Scott Ayers (guitar) and Bliss Blood (vocals); and "Destroy me, lover", released in 1993, is their fifth album.
This group is bluffing, for its originality, the particular sound it gives to its music (especially the guitar but also thanks to an excellent use of samples and all the panoply of electronic hacks, present without being omnipresent) and especially Pain Teens demonstrates on this album that they are at ease in different musical styles, moving from one genre to another with a mastery and a surprising dexterity which never harms the artistic coherence of the whole even if its guiding line noise rock remains.
We navigate from one atmosphere to another with a big smile of contentment and we go happily from experimental noisy noise to more pop noise and even to folk with Leonard Cohen's remarkable cover "Story of Isaac" which falls on us by surprise. A totally unexpected and radiant sweetness.
The magnificent "Prowling" is also a kind of noisy ballad with a more than mysterious atmosphere with its haunting background music.
Pain Teens also offers us more traditional rock with the excellent "Cool your power" and "Lisa knew".
With "Tar pit" we explore a more industrial noise but again absolutely masterful.
"RU 486" is the most pop song on the album but showing if needed that Pain Teens is comfortable with the different styles they tackle.
Finally, let's mention the surprising "Dominant man" with a brass section giving a boogie jazz funk side to the title. All in swing. Again it surprises and again it is very successful. High level in diversity!
And of course the haunting voice of Bliss Blood the charismatic and enigmatic singer.
But Pain Teens forsakes a little the too experimental side of "Born in blood" in particular to write more accessible titles, almost more pop one could say, even if the avant-garde disjointed noise is not completely absent. Indeed ("Body memory" and "Shock treatment" are the proof), say more discreet, less omnipresent.
But on this disc Pain Teens succeeds in a perfect mix between noise pop and experimental noise with in addition some nice surprises to discover.
An album that is unlike any other among those I have listened to so far, really surprising, original and very creative.

from: GUTS OF DARKNESS website:

Translated from: French

Bliss Blood and Scott Ayers. You Do not Mess with the Bonnie & Clyde then. Two Natural Born Weirdos from Texas as pouacre and degenerate. And degeneration, it knows them. We know that 93 is the year when a good part of the American underground turns dark or murky. The Pain Teens, who are among the very few extremists do not get to a major label (blame their debut undue still color their benefits, a priori very unhealthy?) Have always loved to listen in there or it's evil. Perversions and abuse in rural America are their pipe sewer where they like to curl up, even though there remain alone in their style.

Never an album of Pain Teens as clean by entering spring is not. And yet it is their most accessible, their more rock, as evidenced this "Cool Your Power" which starts with a bang, frankly to be dancing. It is almost like familiar territory, but linking with the convolutions almost dark folk of "Prowling" is lethal.

Destroy Me Lover is already beginning to tighten its grip on the listener, the fangs sinking into the flesh as well as the fun begins to rise. The next song is called 'Tar Pit'. You're stuck, poor lamb, you can not extricate himself from now. A large fly as a fist flies in front of you, look there well, in 10 seconds the juices have dissolved as a knob of butter in Coca-Cola.

A small diversion arises: "RU 486" is a little minute of playtime of sadistic serial at the Buffalo Bill before the mirror, before the next song not outright turns cabaret.

Looks a little fiesta in Beelzebub, that "Dominant Man", right, with synthesizers on which is expected to see land as John Balance shout a lecherous pig. But no. Always in these muted whispers, and if we lean enough to, the lyrics reflect the discomfort of the festival then. Legitimate at that stage, not to see what trap the dirty disc wants to lead us.

Without reason, there is the side 2 title on this "Lisa Knew" where the voice starts still a bit to tangle brushes, not without going through a "Sexual Anorexia" shaped delirium at Butthole Surfers (talk show samples appalling in support), which further blurs a little more tracks. Happens abstruse and frankly very bad "Body Memory", confusion reigns. We do not know exactly where the wire is, where is what is the album there?

So that was it, she had to say, the bitch with red hair. Everything makes sense, titles, words, even this "Body Memory" shaped unconscious ascent. After something like that, I can assure you that the note is no longer any doubt, and that only can go silent, where well the horrible, unspeakable sound of childish trauma that resurfaced in a stupor taint. Moreover what is meant by the end of the title. Then the neuroses node that seems aimless convulse and left you on that, to you. To this end the album, these guys are maybe geniuses, but not nice geniuses, if I may.
(Thursday, May 9, 2013)

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released March 11, 2015

Composed and recorded by Scott Ayers
with Bliss Blood
Lyrics by Bliss Blood

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Bliss Blood is a songwriter and vocalist who lives in Brooklyn.

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