Evil Mothers

I Love Fur (Invisible)
by Jon Sarre

Many years ago, a Chicagoan named Al Jourgensen with no discernible talent except for a keen sense of how to get rich by ripping off Big Black, began layering distorted guitars over a synth-drum beat and the rest, as they say, is Trent Reznor. Now that both Ministry and Nine Inch Nails (not to mention Filter, Gravity Kills, and My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult) have proved that dance beat angst can be both artistically satisfying and profitable, we’ll probably never be rid of the stuff. Not surprisingly, Evil Mothers work the same formula; no new ideas, just drum machines, Al Jr. vocal “expressionism,” vampire and werewolf imagery and as much uh… “evilness” as can be mustered by a bunch of boys with lots of electronic toys. What all this boils down to is that Evil Mothers are about as substantial as a Twinkie and about as evil as Andy Williams. Anyone dumb enough to buy this probably already owns the entire Wax Trax catalogue and that still makes I Love Fur redundant.