By the time
The Last Dubber arrived, loyal
Ministry fans had already experienced two years' worth of fringe releases, all coming after the "band" "retired" in 2007. This remix effort is the least desirable of all the live albums and other ephemera
Al Jourgensen has released since laying his
Ministry project to rest, but it's not a complete washout and serves a purpose for fanatics who thought
The Last Sucker was just too tight. Here, that album gets chopped and stretched into a sprawling landscape of scrapes and thuds, none of it hitting as hard as the source material. A good example is how the opening "Clocks Strike Thirteen" mix of "Watch Yourself" doesn't catch fire until its last 41 seconds, although the crawl to get there is textured, interesting, and as druggy as the spliff-toking George W. on the cover implies. Just like on
Ministry's Rio Grande Dub,
Clayton Worbeck handles most of the remixing with
John Bechdel and
DJ Hardware getting one track each. With his hands mostly off the project,
Jourgensen gets to stick by his retirement promise. Fans get that lone
Ministry album which doesn't demand much attention and can actually slink into the background.