| Finally, John Lydon's back
on dangerous ground. The erstwhile Sex Pistols/Public Image Limited provocateur's
first-ever solo album features his most dissonant noises since PiL's 1981
Flowers of Romance. Songs like "Grave Ride" skitter over tribal
electronics spiked with Eastern drones; the John Wayne Gacy-influenced
"Psychopath," however, proves that Lydon's trademark misanthropy
is still intact. Psycho's Path also finds Lydon, like everybody else,
going techno for the '90s. For him it makes sense, though, as he's always
been a dance-music buff (an early PiL song wasn't called "Death Disco"
for nothing). It's a gas to hear him out-Prodigy the Prodigy, snarling
over grooves from electronica heavyweights such as Leftfield, the Chemical
Brothers and Moby. |