Mass (Grotus album)

Mass is the third and last full-length album by the experimental band Grotus.[1][5] The album's sound focuses more on alternative and blues rock than industrial and is perhaps their most accessible recording.[6] The band broke up the same year the album was released.

Mass
Studio album by
Grotus
ReleasedMarch 19, 1996
RecordedSpring 1995 at Decibel Worship, SF, CA
GenreAlternative rock, industrial rock
Length40:41
LabelLondon Records[1]
ProducerChris Arvan
Grotus chronology
The Opiate of the Masses
(1994)		 Mass
(1996)
Singles from Mass
  1. "Hand to Mouth"
    Released: 1995
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]
RIP[4]

Critical reception

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch called the album "snot-nosed, sludgehammer rock that comes off like a minor league Wax Trax act," writing that "it flashes with brilliant bits, such as 'Taint Nobody's Bizness If I Do,' which sports out-of-tune piano pounding augmented by sequences and raunchy talk-show samples."[7] Ox-Fanzine called it "just plain boring, a pounding piece of pseudo-experimental alternative rumble."[8]

Track listing
  1. "That's Entertainment" - 2:32
  2. "A Bad Itch" - 3:20
  3. "White Trash Blues" - 3:56
  4. "Ebola Reston" - 4:12
  5. "Hand to Mouth" - 2:57
  6. "T'Ain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do" - 4:04
  7. "Sick" - 3:04
  8. "Collect 'Em All" - 4:25
  9. "Wild Bill" - 3:30
  10. "The Bottom Line" - 3:31
  11. "Back in the Day" - 4:10

Personnel

Grotus
  • Bruce Boyd - drums, turntables
  • John Carson - bass, sampler, electronics, synthesizer
  • Lars Fox - vocals, drums, sampling
  • Adam Tanner - Fender bass, string bass, guitar, sampling, electronics

Production
  • Chris Arvan - production, engineering

References
  1. "Grotus". Trouser Press. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
  2. Raggett, Ned. Mass at AllMusic
  3. Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 4. MUZE. p. 23.
  4. (RIP 7/96, p.11)
  5. "Grotus | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  6. "Next Stop Vietnam, Again". The San Francisco Examiner: 253. March 17, 1996.
  7. "Album Reviews". St. Louis Post-Dispatch: 43. March 14, 1996.
  8. Deutschland, Ox Fanzine, Solingen. "Review". www.ox-fanzine.de.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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