release date: 1992
format: digital
[album rate: 2,5 / 5] [2,38]
producer: Thåström and Cybersank (aka Sanken Sandqvist)
label: MVG Records - nationality: The Netherlands / Sweden
Track highlights: 1. "(I'm The) Radio King-Kong" - 2. "Do the Monkey (Hitch-Hike to Mars)"
Studio album debut by Swedish/Dutch band Peace, Love & Pitbulls - a project-band formed by Joakim Thåström on lead vocals and sampling, Peter Lööf on rap and backing vocals, Rikard Sporrong on guitar and with Niklas Hellberg on sampling and programming. The album is released by the MNW sublabel MVG Records, and the main album producers are Thåstróm and Cybersank, but also band member Niklas Hellberg and The Pittbulls are credited for producing on three of the album's twelve tracks. Both band and album was received as a Thåström project-band, although, it officially was a band formed in Amsterdam in '92.
Musically, the band primarily engages in industrial metal, and the music is allegedly inspired by Einstürzende Neubauten and Swedish metal band Entombed.
I recall, coming across the album in the early 90s and thinking of it as a long shot from what I associated with Thåström. He had taken on a much more aggressive alt. rock and industrial rock style on his first two solo albums, but this is a quite remarkable turn in a new direction.
I never liked this much, but the band is said to have inspired Marilyn Manson in shaping their initial style. To me, this only serves to document the stylistic changes Thåström went through after having left Imperiet behind and for the first time in two decades was free to go in whatever musical direction he wanted, and with the move to Amsterdam, he obviously wanted to make a clean start.
Not recommended.
