To me Live At The Witch Trials sounds like one of those debuts where a great band is almost there but not quite. The competent (yawn) drumming doesn't have that tribal, manic quality you get with The Fall at their best, the rough edges feel smoothed out, the atmosphere is not quite there.
This, on the other hand, is where it's at. A paranoid horror story sprinkled with gnomic utterances about "old golden savages" who "killed their philosophers", set to some deliciously primitive percussion, everything dripping with darkness.
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