Streetcleaner

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For the concept, see street cleaner.
Streetcleaner
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Studio album by Godflesh
Released November 13, 1989 (1989-11-13)
Recorded May–August 1989
Genre Industrial metal
Length 66:16
Label Earache, Combat
Producer J. K. Broadrick, G. C. Green
Godflesh chronology
Streetcleaner
(1989)		 Pure
(1992)Pure1992

Streetcleaner is the second release and the debut full length album by British industrial metal band Godflesh. It was released on November 13, 1989, on Earache Records.

Background

Justin Broadrick stated that the drum machine sound was heavily influenced by hip hop artists in the late 80s, particularly the beat on "Christbait Rising": "It was my attempt at copying the rhythm sample on 'Microphone Fiend' by Eric B & Rakim".[1] The album cover is a shot from the third hallucination scene in the movie Altered States.

Streetcleaner was recorded in several sessions. The first five songs were recorded at Soundcheck in Birmingham, from May–August, 1989. The next five songs (nine on the second CD issue) were recorded at Square Dance in Derby in May, 1989. The last four songs were originally recorded as the Tiny Tears EP, which the band wanted the label to release as their follow up to the Godflesh EP. Earache Records, however, pushed the band to record a full length album instead, and the Tiny Tears EP never saw an independent release. The tracks were instead later appended as bonus tracks to the second CD issue of Streetcleaner.

Release

Streetcleaner was released on November 13, 1989, on Earache Records. It was remastered and re-released on June 21, 2010.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4.5/5 stars[2]
Chicago Tribune 3/4 stars[3]
Entertainment Weekly B+[4]

Streetcleaner received positive reviews, and was hailed as a creative masterpiece. Ned Raggett of Allmusic said, "Streetcleaner doesn't so much grind as crawl, but it does with an awesome, bass-heavy power",[2] and "Drum machines shatter, shudder, and downright assault, while the riffs the two (or three) cook up are bludgeoning".[2] He also stated that "the band deliver everything with a pinpoint precision".[2] In The Rough Guide to Rock, Richard Fontenoy said, "With the heaviest of metal riffs, slowed down to a crushing, claustrophobic pace and backed by a drum machine, Godflesh created a relentless, alienating wall of sound overlaid with feedback, samples, and Broadrick's misanthropic vocals."[5] In The New Metal Masters, H. P. Newquist and Rich Maloof wrote, "Never before had one band incorporated metal, industrial, techno, and electronica into a single form—let alone one so sinister sounding."[6] Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune said that while the vocals were typical of death metal, "the sonic landscape is something else, blending the vicious with the ethereal."[3]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by J. K. Broadrick and G. C. Green, unless otherwise noted. 

No. Title Length
1. "Like Rats"   4:28
2. "Christbait Rising"   7:00
3. "Pulp"   4:21
4. "Dream Long Dead"   5:22
5. "Head Dirt"   6:13
6. "Devastator" (Broadrick, Green, Paul Neville) 3:20
7. "Mighty Trust Krusher" (Broadrick, Green, Neville) 5:26
8. "Life Is Easy" (Broadrick, Green, Neville) 4:53
9. "Streetcleaner" (Broadrick, Green, Neville) 6:50
10. "Locust Furnace"   4:48
11. "Tiny Tears" (CD bonus track) 3:24
12. "Wound" (CD bonus track) 3:07
13. "Dead Head" (CD bonus track) 4:07
14. "Suction" (CD bonus track) 3:23

Accolades

Year Publication Country Accolade Rank
1995 Alternative Press United States "Top 99 of '85 to '95" 34 [7]
1998 Alternative Press United States "The 90 Greatest Albums of the '90s" 79 [8]
2000 Kerrang! United Kingdom "200 Albums for the Year 2000 (Industrial)" 5 [9]
2000 Terrorizer United Kingdom "100 Most Important Albums of the Eighties" * [10]
2002 Revolver United States "The 69 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time" 66 [11]
"*" denotes an unordered list.

Personnel

Charts

Chart (1989) Peak
position
UK Indie Chart[12] 19

References

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