| The Harold Pig Memorial | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Circus Devils |
| Cover: | HAROLD_PIGmemorial.jpg |
| Released: | 2002 |
| Genre: | Alternative rock, psychedelic rock |
| Label: | Rockathon Records /the Fading Captain Series |
| Producer: | Todd Tobias |
| Prev Title: | Ringworm Interiors |
| Prev Year: | 2001 |
| Year: | 2002 |
| Next Title: | Pinball Mars |
| Next Year: | 2003 |
The Harold Pig Memorial is the second studio album by the American psychedelic rock trio Circus Devils, released in 2002. Conceived as a concept album, each song depicts an episode in the life of biker Harold Pig as told by Harold's friends at his wake.
Erasing Clouds's Dave Heaton wrote,
The album has an epic sweep to it which makes it feel like a journey. While the nonsequitors and genuinely creepy stretches make Circus Devils' music likely too odd for your average music fan, this isn't a hapless "side project" but an intricate, intoxicating epic showcasing a unique, hybrid form of rock.On behalf of AllMusic, Karen E. Graves added,
Pollard's patented vocal hooks are sprinkled throughout and vicious guitar solos add to the Devils' sweeping sense of barely controlled chaos. The tone of the album remains dark and is again done on a grand soundtrack scale, but whereas Ringworm Interiors had a menacing, unsettling, perhaps David Lynchian feel, The Harold Pig Memorial has a more unifying, often suitably funereal (but still unsettling), musical theme woven throughout.[1]