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
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. Volume 4: MUZE. p. 23.CS1 maint: location (link)
  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.
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