v/a: Like A Frog In Winter
lp + 7", 500 copies (depleted), hospital productions

ffh - broken and humbled
a fail association - behind the knee
immaculate:grotesque - put on your death suit bitch
cleanse - flame
pedestrian deposit - consequence
chrysalis - fallen order
ahlzagailzehguh - worth the risk
habeeb - strangulation
craniopagus - flacid expectations
alberich - strapping hounds
bereft - sanity
barrikad - social gender patterns emerge
prurient - master of aids
sewer election - two fingers for h
panicsville - eat shit
filthy turd - hot cock filthy
omei - if you could just stop
the seven arts - alleyway song excerpt
age of enlightenment - tracer rounds strike veiled women
mark solotroff - untitled
whorebutcher - one step away
climax denial - leg humper
stegm - the gift
burden - flower full of beauty

"i started putting this compilation together in 2004 while residing in providence. at that time the climate of noise was rather hi-fi, technological, and cold. This was the start of noise as entertainment rather than entertaining. personal communication became lost. noise became something clean. something stimulating. in response i started putting together a list of new bands at the time that i felt represented a more psychological, minimal, dismal, and rejected feeling that to me was one of a fire place having smoldered out after a night of burning. aside from the sound i wanted to see a return to the fetishistic and erotic attitude of noise... and a negative one at that.... again in response to what i saw as a call for positive noise. i asked the artists to think about the theme of inevitability. of being unable to escape ones own attractions and being slaves to desire. each one approached this topic differently and sometimes in very contradiction to the theme as you will see. many of these artists have continued on to establish themselves while others have vanished into the ether. however this is the terms upon which this work came forth to offer again a refreshingly negative perspective on this human game we play called life."