Peter Wright

Coitus KRK123 11trks 71min

Coitus compiles the last industrial rock compositions Peter released on kRkRkRk before abandoning this sort of music in favour of more abstract, ambient & improvised forms.

Perhaps the Coitus moniker was meant to suggest a sort of coming together or synthesis of disparate threads in Peter's work. Throughout 1995, the structured, song/lyric strand had been represented by the In Vitro project, whilst the Noise/Horror Collision project had absorbed Peter's more improvisational & abstract musical inclinations.

In the event, only the initial Coitus cassette album, 040769 KRK060, released in January 1996, actually sat solidly in the industrial rock arena. The other two original cassette releases, Man In Blue Box KRK064 & Man In Glass Cage KRK074 (both released in latter 1996) were more concerned with the drifting soundscape music that would dominate Peter's later work. This music is available on the Apoplexy CDRs Automaton apx10 & Syncopate apx06.

Compared with the sparse & melancholic minimalism pervading much of the In Vitro No.2 release, Coitus brandishes some of the most brutal & aggressive rock music Peter ever recorded. Rock is the operative word - in contrast to the BGO or In Vitro No.1 albums Coitus winds back the pop elements in the music in favour of an altogether heavier emphasis. A smouldering anger infects the proceedings - occasionally lashing out at the listener; bristling & malevolent.

There's a greater palette of sounds & treatments on Coitus as well. This is particularly evident on the more atmospheric pieces where piano/organ & metal percussion textures are occasionally permitted to oust the, otherwise omnipresent, guitars & drum machine. The piano-based tracks very much evoke This Kind Of Punishment but, on the whole, the album has a more international flavour. Audible influences range from JimThirwell, Ministry & Scorn to Nine Inch Nails &, of course, Einsturzende Neubauten. Perhaps these overseas artists come to mind simply because so much of Peter's later music with kRkRkRk is unique in the New Zealand context.

In Vitro No.1 KRK121
In Vitro No.2 KRK122
Bent Gastropod Omnibus KRK120
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August 2004