Rozz released 2 spoken word albums, Every King A Bastard Son (1992) and the Whore's Mouth (1997). I've got both but haven't got a chance to listen to EKABS, I bought it in Hong Kong just before I went to Manchester and left it in Hong Kong, so... Then I just concentrated on the Whore's Mouth...

The Whore's Mouth was a record of how Rozz' fighting with herionis. It is the heaviest album which in the same line as Joy Division's Closer, Manic Street Preachers' Holy Bible I've ever listened to. The heaviest is not about the musical style, it's about the emotion. This album is full of sorrow, frustration, depression and confession, it's a torture for every nervous skins. But it's good to feel pain, don't we?

Musically, most pieces were led by the piano and then, noises. Rozz didn't leave a note on his leaving, but he did write it in this album, Dec. 30, 1334. Or in fact, all the individual pieces is good enough to be a perfect suicide note. Rozz is great, specially in spoken word, he got talent in written and reading. The control of emotion and rythum, it's enough to touch your wounds.

I can't say it's dark but terrific is true, don't listen to the Whore's Mouth if your deathwish is in the moment to grow.

by blux

6-5-2002