Name: Form Grows Rampant
Brand: The Threshold HouseBoys Choir

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

MPD034CD

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-03-04

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Signed copies: No

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5414165122340

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

MPD034

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black

Double 180 Gram Vinyl housed in Gatefold Sleeve.

5414165122333

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2 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

The Threshold HouseBoys Choir

Genre GB

Experimental / Avant-Garde / Industrial / Noise

Label GB

Musique Pour La Danse

The Threshold HouseBoys Choir was a project by Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson. Operating out of Bangkok, Thailand, the Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV founding member started this audio and visual endeavour following Coil's end.

Despite the name, it was a solo project which relied heavily on computer generated vocals. The name was derived from a play on words, combining the terms houseboy, house of boys, boys' choir, and Threshold House, which was Coil's own label. <i>Form Grows Rampant</i> is the soundtrack of a film shot by Christopherson (a video capture at the GinJae Vegetarian Festival in the south of Thailand) and his first major musical project since the tragic death of John Balance and the subsequent demise of Coil.

The music is a suite of lengthy dense atmospherics that combine shuddering electronics with sampled vocals, eerie digitalia, buried melodies and sinister undercurrents hinting at a gleaming heart of darkness, with a joyful melodic progression that sounds positively triumphant towards the end of the disc. It's both Coil-esque and quite different, and undoubtedly is the worthy successor of the legendary group that Christopherson created with his partner John Balance.

First released in small quantities in 2007 as a CD/DVD set, this is the first time it is released on vinyl and CD. This reissue has been mastered from original files by Sidney Claire Meyer at former Deutsche Grammophon studios Emil Berliner in Berlin, using the half speed mastering process, and pressed on heavy vinyl.

Form Grows Rampant

Music GB