Opening with the arty gloom 'n' doom of the opening cut 'Incantation,' in which and her bandmates chant in Latin (or something that sounds like it) over a plodding minor-key synthesizer line, aims to sound bigger, more expansive and more 'important' than the purposefully trashy debut, though as a consequence it also sounds a good bit more pretentious, especially when launches a rant against cops, government and the press on the final cut 'A Pig Is a Pig' (the latter target rather ironic, given the way the band courted media attention). After the jackhammer, metal-tinged punk rock of their debut album, got a lot more ambitious with their second long-player, 1981's.
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