Slaughterhouse Tear Down The House with Debut Album 'Fun Factory'
photo by nick green
San Pedro’s finest, Slaughterhouse, is here with an engrossing piece of work. Their latest record, Fun Factory, is a blend of punk and grunge that beads your temple with sweat, keeps your feet stomping to the rhythm, and hurls your head back and forth in sync without your input.
Fun Factory is all killer, no filler. Not a single track is skippable on this record, and even more impressive, each track builds on the momentum of the previous without even slightly fumbling it. A brilliant curation of tracks creates a dichotomic pace for the record. Downtime in Fun Factory is pronounced like gasps of breaths before diving back into a pit of hell, darkness, and tinnitus.
Undoubtedly, Fun Factory is an experience meant to be listened to as a whole. The seamless transition from one track to the next is a dimension of the record that almost gives the impression that the album, as a whole, works like a single (and very long) song.
A nefarious rhythm drives this record forward like a central nerve. You can see it “under the skin” of each track, but it can be twisted and redirected in so many ways that Fun Factory hardly feels stale even after a fourth consecutive listen. The record is distinctive from the bass-humming of the record’s opening “TV Age” to the drum-lead opening in “Paranoia.” While feeling natural, Fun Factory gives every member of Slaughterhouse a chance to shine.
Slaughterhouse has dropped an amazing record that sounds distinct from their peers. It’s a pessimistic album with an optimistic outlook for Slaughterhouse’s future, and if you aren’t familiar with the band, there is no better album to jump on board than Fun Factory. Go check it out, now.
Photo by KIRK DOMINGUEZ