Stimulation Festival Explained

Stimulation Festival
Type:	album
Artist:	Pain Teens
Cover:	Pain_Teens_Stimulation_Festival.jpg
Released:	1992
Genre:	Noise rock^[1]
Length:	55:16
Label:	Trance Syndicate
Producer:	Scott Ayers
Prev Title:	Born in Blood
Prev Year:	1990
Next Title:	Destroy Me, Lover
Next Year:	1993

Stimulation Festival is a studio album by American band Pain Teens, released in 1992 by Trance Syndicate.^{[2] [3]} "Wild World" is a cover of the Birthday Party song.^[4]

Reception

The Chicago Tribune deemed the album "a 14-track dread- and chaos-permeated industrial slugfest, built around singer Bliss Blood's drained, spoken-word ramblings and Scott Ayers' guitar hash and mechanistic studio manipulations." The Dallas Morning News praised the "inventive guitar and samples [and] Ms. Blood's sassy singing."^[5]

Jason Anderson of AllMusic called the album "a fine first purchase for new fans, as it is nothing if not representative of Pain Teens' sonic assault."

Personnel

Adapted from the Stimulation Festival liner notes.^[6]

Pain Teens

• Scott Ayers – guitar, drums, electronics, tape, production, engineering
• Bliss Blood – lead vocals, cover art
• Kirk Carr – bass guitar
• Frank Garymartin – drums
• David Parker – drums

External links

• Stimulation Festival at Bandcamp

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Revival of Cherubs. Earles. Andrew. Pitchfork. March 31, 2015. October 16, 2017.
2. Stimulation Festival by Pain Teens . Melody Maker . Jul 4, 1992 . 68 . 27 . 31.
3. News: SXSW Schedule . Austin American-Statesman . 18 Mar 1993 . Onward . 13.
4. David . Sprague . Pain Teens . . 2007 . July 19, 2015.
5. News: Gubbins . Teresa . A declaration of independents . The Dallas Morning News . February 25, 1993 . 5C.
6. Stimulation Festival . . 1992 . booklet . . Austin, Texas.