SLIP
QUICKSAND
(1992)
A1: FAZER (3:13); A2: HEAD TO WALL (3:03); A3: DINE ALONE (3:27); A4: SLIP (2:21); A5: FREEZING PROCESS (3:19); A6: LIE AND WAIT (2:32).
B1: UNFULFILLED (3:23); B2: CAN OPENER (3:39); B3: OMISSION (2:33); B4: BAPHOMET (4:42); B5: TOO OFFICIAL (2:48); B6: TRANSPARENT (4:04).
CATEGORY: HARDCORE ROCK | DURATION: 40 MINUTES
Emerging from the wreckage of New York’s hardcore scene, Quicksand joined that city’s league of notable hardcore rock purveyors by perfecting their sound on Slip at a time when “grunge” was touted as a roughed-up return to rock basics. Some may prefer graveyard junkie howls from the haunted, corpse-filled woods of Seattle (Alice In Chains) or even the sonic threat of imminent meltdown and mental collapse in a drug-deranged slacker society on the rise (Beck), but Slip is ultimately more futuristic in its compounding of punishing groove-based sound with the unleashing of nebulous and agonizingly transient obsessions.
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF ROBERT YOUNG (1964-2014)
“ÆTERNUM VORTICE LACRIMARUM SOMNIAT”