Mute U.S.
2002
Loud Like Nature
About This Album
With the rise of all things fun, sexy, and trashy in electronic music, the time seems right for Add N to (X)'s campy yet challenging aesthetic to gain more appreciation. The group seizes the opportunity on Loud Like Nature by mixing their crazed analog synth experiments with more pop song structures and simpler, more streamlined arrangements. Essentially, it's the same approach they took on the somewhat muddled Add Insult to Injury, but this time the group finds a better balance of the simple and the strange, making Loud Like Nature their most exciting album since Avant Hard. It also manages to be their most focused and yet diverse work, spanning the poppy, dysfunctional lust of "Sheez Mine" and the expansive "Invasion of the Polaroid People," which features vocals by rock legend/old coot Kim Fowley on two tracks. Most of Loud Like Nature falls somewhere in between these extremes: Tracks like "All Night Lazy," "Party Bag," and the first single, "Take Me to Your Leader," revisit and revitalize the stomping glam rock/electronica fusion they pioneered on Add Insult to Injury with a sexier, more menacing edge, while "Electric Village," "- U Baby," and "P.
Track List (try tracks 5,6,8,9,10 and 12)

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