GROTUS Slow Motion Apocalypse 1993

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Artist Biography by Eduardo Rivadavia

With their eccentric blend of disparate musical styles, San Francisco's Grotus fit in extremely well with the 1990s freewheeling alt-rock spirit -- so well, and so freewheeling, in fact, that hardly anyone remembers their existence. Birthed along with the decade itself, the quartet comprised of Lars Fox (vocals/samples), Adam Tanner (guitar/bass/samples), John Carson (bass/samples), and Bruce Boyd recorded several albums (including 1991's Brown, 1993's Slow Motion Apocalypse, and 1996's Mass) featuring heavily electronic/industrial distortions of alt-rock and metal -- all topped with often inscrutable, nearly dadaist lyrics decried in a schizophrenic array of voices. That Grotus managed to attract a small cult following almost goes without saying, but mass acceptance was probably never an option, so, after being juggled by a number of well-intentioned but equally perplexed independent labels, the group's career (also filled with several EPs and remix sets) finally ground to a halt in the late '90s, along with the alt-rock era's enthusiasm for anything so quirky.

 

Tracklist  

1	Up Rose The Mountain	3:54
2	Good Evening	1:08
3	The Same Old Sauce	2:09
4	Hourglass	3:44
5	Shivayanama	4:41
6	Complications	3:55
7	Kali Yuga	3:23
8	Clean	4:41
9	Sleepwalking	6:05
10	Medicine	3:07
11.1	Slow Motion Apocalypse	3:55
11.2	Brown (Remix)	6:04