Pop Will Eat Itself - Cure For Sanity FLAC download

All the way back when this was originally released, I bought the CD without having heard a single track from PWEI, just because I loved the artwork. It was around the time I bought the first LFO album, also on the strength of its cover. I fell in love with Warp and with the work of the Designers Republic. Cure For Sanity didn't really sound like anything I was into, but it had such a great energy and great tunes. Both Cure For Sanity and its predecessor, This Is The Day...This Is The Hour...This Is This!, remained firm favourites for quite a few years, but the albums that followed were far more patchy and lacklustre, and, above all, lacked the enormous sense of fun that fuelled these two records, and these two records were all but forgotten for a few years. I recently dug them up and played them for the first time in many years, and I realised just how much fun Cure For Sanity was. Right from its opening sequence (that sermon is just so good) to its last moment, it's a massive roller coaster of hip hop, dance, indie and rock all thrown in together, with very little planning (it seems) other than, well, this enormous thirst for thundering grooves (Dance Of The Mad Bastards and 88 Seconds...& Still Counting are just so thrilling, Nightmare At 20,000 FT or 92°F (apart perhaps for Touched By The Hand Of Cicciolina), are also pretty cool, and the rest is still worth a re-visit, at least). The album certainly is of its time, and has therefore aged a fair bit. It does sound very 1990s, and bares much of its ticks and gimmicks, but is it such a bad thing? Not really if you cherish that era in music. The addition of some pretty great remixes is definitely welcome, none more than the dreamy reworking of X, Y & Zee, already my favourite track on the album which is turned into quite a hazy hip chill out tune, and made completely magical. Was Cure For Sanity a good record back then, I don't quite know, but it is definitely not the worst by far made in the early 1990s and it has such a sense of fun and disrespect to pretty much anything that it is still a pretty thrilling listen now.

From the Notes section:"Main artist appears as 'The Pop Will Eat Itself' on the cover, in the booklet and on the spines. 'Pop Will Eat Itself' appears on the CD."I don't think the intent on the cover is to bill them as "The Pop Will Eat Itself" but rather to refer to the title in whole as "The Pop Will Eat Iself Cure for Sanity."