The formula for "Incesticide" hardly sounds appetizing. It's a label-arranged compilation of B-sides and unused tracks from across Nirvana's entire career up to that point, in no particular order. It's surprising, then, that it holds its own on a plain with Nevermind and In Utero.
If Nevermind is where we heard Nirvana's power-pop side, and In Utero is we heard their noise-rock side*, then Incesticide is Nirvana's punk album. Tracks like the incredibly angry and angsty "Been a Son" and the raw, exuberant Vaselines cover "Molly's Lips" show all the energy and emotion of Nirvana's other works, but with a punk simplicity that'll destroy your speakers completely.
Even the more conventionally Nirvana songs like "Aneurysm" have a raw, under-processed brilliance that even In Utero didn't have consistently. I can't really knock off any points, this is a 10/10 album like Nevermind or In Utero.
(* Well, they did do noise-rock on Bleach, but that doesn't count because "not a lot of people own it.")
Incesticide - Nirvana Does Punk
The formula for "Incesticide" hardly sounds appetizing. It's a label-arranged compilation of B-sides and unused tracks from across Nirvana's entire career up to that point, in no particular order. It's surprising, then, that it holds its own on a plain with Nevermind and In Utero.
If Nevermind is where we heard Nirvana's power-pop side, and In Utero is we heard their noise-rock side*, then Incesticide is Nirvana's punk album. Tracks like the incredibly angry and angsty "Been a Son" and the raw, exuberant Vaselines cover "Molly's Lips" show all the energy and emotion of Nirvana's other works, but with a punk simplicity that'll destroy your speakers completely.
Even the more conventionally Nirvana songs like "Aneurysm" have a raw, under-processed brilliance that even In Utero didn't have consistently. I can't really knock off any points, this is a 10/10 album like Nevermind or In Utero.
(* Well, they did do noise-rock on Bleach, but that doesn't count because "not a lot of people own it.")