1985 review of worldbroken
by p. sterling (puncture)
I've been playing this record
so much I must right (I mean write) something so it will get off the
turntable. There's some subtle voodoo going on. Famed essayist Richard
Meltzer wrote as liner notes a Patty Smith style poem bringing Jim and Jimi
into Worldbroken.
Saccharine Trust didn't begin as a rock band. They weaseled and slithered
their way through the early punk scene and onto SST and still they are not a
rock band. They found something different to do. The first time I say them
open for Black Flag I was warily intrigued and all I could think of was
seagulls. It was around the time I fell in love with the Meat Puppets. The
Puppets developed into a real band, but for years I shunned Saccharine Trust
for being ugly, self-indulgent Satanist martyrs.
But Worldbroken I can accept. I can say in all confidence that it is
shocking, well crafted poetry spoken enthusiastically by Joaquin Milhouse
Brewer with Joe Baiza doing guitar in a menacing new wave jazz style.
Highly beatnik, trendy ahead of it's time. After years of torturing us
with scary trash records and bible thumping performance, Saccharine Trust
have rewarded us with an interesting LP we can sit down and listen to. Want
the newest of the new? Buy Saccharine Trust. I write this so I won't die.
