Clint Ruin, the king of deathly orchestration, the man whose music dives
into the deepest reaches of the condemned soul, the composer whose arrangements
play pied piper to the dark side, once again teams up with the dark
industrial trudge of long-time contemporary Roli Mosimann (Swans). Dirtdish
radiates a good deal more emotional force than some of Ruin's more recent
Foetus works. The songs all build on heavy, intense tribal percussion overlayed
with bits of whiney distorted guitar (leads courtesy Robert Quine on "Prime
Gonzola" and "Someone Drowned In My Pool"), occasional violin and Ruin's
characteristic vocal style. Dirtdish is full of Satanic religious
fervor (indulge yourself with "0-0 (Where Evil Dwells)" and "Godbrain")
that builds in an intense layered fashion that only a duo like this could
pull off.