Pitbull Daycare – Six Six Sex – Review

Pitbull Daycare

Six Six Sex (MIA)
by Paul Lee

Once upon a time, industrial bands were as abundant as screws in a hardware store. Most wanted to sound like Nine Inch Nails, Ministry, Front 242, or Skinny Puppy. The landscape was littered with them until the industrial furor died down and went underground once again. Crawling out of this underground are Texans Pitbull Daycare who have broken away from the prefabricated industrial genre of old to develop their own sound that’s firmly rooted in punk. On their album Six Six Sex, PD exemplify the new industrial sound.

Singer Stephen Bishop has a voice like a mutation of Johnny Rotten and Jello Biafra. Guitar, bass, and keyboard guy Don Van Stavern used to play for ’80s metallers Riot and now creates some nasty electronic cacophony along with guitar/keyboard guy T.C. Conally. Though they’re steeped in a rock base, PD have a firm grasp of electronics and all the fucked-up sounds they can create with keyboards. Six Six Sex may not be the most unique of artistic endeavors, but it sure as hell rocks with a vicious high-tech edge. If only they could have gotten those guitars to crunch more with some fatter distortion and bottom-end. That aside, this disc should get PD some recognition. I hear their live show is full of wild, shock rock elements, too. Though I don’t really care either way about Marilyn Manson, Pitbull Daycare may give him some competition in the freak industrial genre.
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