MINISTRY – The Squirrely Years Revisited

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• Band: MINISTRY

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• Duration: 00:55:20
• Available from: 28/03/2025

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• Cleopatra Records

Ministry are the classic band whose established state of worship becomes easily a double -edged sword. Therefore, Their latest records. Moreover, let’s say after the legendary “Anti Bush” trilogy (and we talk about eighteen years ago, with “The Last Sucker”), have sometimes been announced ministry – squirrely years revisited as the last, certainly chapter of a glorious story; They had high-compositional ups and downs, without ever expiring in bad results, and expressed remnants of courage-especially in the most dub and slowed derives of the last two full-lengths-even if they have not always conquered fans.
What more courageous. Furthermore, unsettling move, therefore, than to return to the dawn, especially if this means facing the ghosts of “with sympathy”? Nevertheless, For those who are not a jourgecensen huge follower. that first album published in 1983 has long represented, for his uncle al, a real nemesis; Thanks to the discreet success of a couple of individuals born on the furrows of Synthpop, the then pialer and inexperienced godfather of the industrial found himself – and we use his words – exploited and raped by the Argerist Records, forced to publish a record that not only is light years away from what will make ministry – squirrely years revisited him a myth in the years to follow, but sounds really false and little heard, with dozen arrangements. Not surprisingly. until a few years ago, it was not appropriate to even name the existence (experience made in first person …). to get copies of that disc, Jourgensen demanded a donation of at least five hundred dollars to a charity body.
So what changed in 2025? Do we just have to accuse. or thank, the tendency to impetus gestures if today-moreover while in the studio he has started working with the legendary team Paul Barker-the ministry have committed themselves to re-regulating the songs over forty years ago? Can be. Moreover. unpredictability is one of the strengths of this band and, look a little, a record comes out of a freshness and a sense of fun that we have not perceived for some time.
Attention. do not expect the total upheaval in an industrial ministry – squirrely years revisited key of those nine songs – more three in the CD version, even if, objectively, “Just Like You,” “We Believe” and “Over the Shoulder” do not present great news compared to what he heard on “Twitch” – but the worthy and unexpected rearrangement of pieces that, not by chance, take on new dignity.
Since the initial “Work for Love”. one of the pieces that remain the most anchored to the ‘light’ sounds of the time, you feel a different spirit and it is captured how these songs were not bad tout-counts, indeed; The contribution of guitars is heard, never too pervasive, while the keyboards rugs play much less obvious and more full -bodied. In addition. Jourgensen manages to field a vocal variety that gives depth and new dignity to the songs; Especially if we think of that perhaps funny, but horrid fake English accent that he used to time. Thus. one ministry – squirrely years revisited realizes that a “here we go” anticipates almost the first Madchestrathe Goth Rock of “Revenge” or “I’m Falling” would not be out of tune in the repertoire of the Sisters of Mercy, while “Same Old Madness” follows the furrows of the Killing Joke Coevi.
So let’s wait for jackets with the sequins. kisses from the stage on the summer tour – as indeed anticipated by the video of the fun “I’m do Anyhing for You” – and we start from the assumption that a disc with this cover, that is, a squirrel with a monstrous erection in plain sight, cannot disappoint; Just amaze with wide smiles.