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01. Monte Cazazza - Interrogator
02. Monte Cazazza - A Gringo Like Me
03. Monte Cazazza - Break Number One
04. Monte Cazazza - Terminal
05. Monte Cazazza - Venom
06. Monte Cazazza - What's So Kind About Mankind?
07. Monte Cazazza - Birds Of Prey
ARTIST
TITLE
The Cynic
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
PTYT 042CD PTYT 042CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
10/12/2010

Monte Cazazza is a San Francisco-based industrial music pioneer, artist and filmmaker and a genuinely unique artist whose influence on culture in the 20th century has yet to be recognized. The Cynic is Monte's first album since the early '80s. His original releases were through Throbbing Gristle's Industrial Records and San Fran's Subterranean Records. He was regularly featured in the seminal RE/Search magazine and books. In the early '90s, Mute Records gathered most of his earlier recordings together for a Worst Of Monte Cazazza compilation. This early work was harsh, mostly perceived as violently anti-social and often quite shocking. The Cynic sees him unwittingly mine a vein of highly in vogue "retro" synth-pop and TV theme tune soundtracks in a uniquely Monte way. The album is a Rolls Royce release for those industrial/noise fans who can hear beyond the adolescent screech-fests that the genre has been reduced to. To that end, The Wire magazine is publishing a major, Jack Sargent-written feature that serves as a great overview of his often mysterious career, which has frequently seen Monte self-sabotage any attempt to have the outside world engage with his work.