Grinderman set to release debut album on ANTI-
Grinderman: Debut Album Out on Anti- on April 10, 2007
On the 5th of April 2006, Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Martyn Casey and Jim Sclavunos entered RAK studios, London, for a week with producer Nick Launay and recorded thirteen songs. It was mixed in September, at Metropolis Studios. Calling themselves GRINDERMAN, the album is set for an April 10, 2007 release in North America via Anti Records.
NICK CAVE: vocals, electric guitar, organ, piano WARREN ELLIS: electric bouzouki, Fendocaster, violin, viola, acoustic guitar, backing vocals MARTYN CASEY: bass, acoustic guitar, backing vocals JIM SCLAVUNOS: drums, percussion, backing vocals
Below GRINDERMAN discuss the track No Pussy Blues from their self-titled debut album and available at www.myspace.com/grinderman
“As our dreams and desires are hung on the butcher’s hook of rampant consumerism, and the mirage and the illusion and the Nike trainers are served up on the trembling quim of an impossibly nubile girl-thing, No Pussy Blues tells it like it is,” suggests Cave. “It is the child standing goggle-eyed at the cake shop window, as the shop-owner, in his plastic sleeves, barricades the door and turns the sign to “CLOSED”. It is the howl in the dark of the Everyman.”
“Set over a throbbing pornographic bass line, the world holds its breath for the onslaught of the wah’s shriek of frustration and dirty water,” counters Casey. “No Pussy Blues continues in the blues tradition and its timeless fascination with getting laid...or not.”
“It’s ‘Back Door Man’, it’s ’Crawling King Snake’, it’s ‘Tiger Man’,” says Ellis.
“It’s ‘Shake Rattle and Roll’,” says Sclavunos.
While everything is quiet and easy Mr. Grinder can have his way… -- Memphis Slim, 1941