Not quite a traditional
Workdogs album, 1993's
Workdogs in Hell is obscure American lo-fi indie rock's idea of a remix album. These 11 tracks are taken from previous
Workdogs releases and remixed/added to/reconstructed/just generally screwed with by a roll call of cult favorites ranging from New York post-punk royalty
Lydia Lunch and Maureen Tucker to fetish filmmaker Richard Kern and
Foetus mainstay James Thirlwell. Most of the guests just add on new tracks to the preexisting rhythm beds, from
Lunch's primal caterwaul to Kern's typically skuzzy pretentiousness, but a few tracks, especially the trippy "*" and the TV-dialogue maelstrom "'A Litany of Complaints/Satan Is Real,'" turn everything inside out to create some genuinely startling sheets of noise. Weirder than their other albums by far,
Workdogs in Hell is for devout fans only. ~ Stewart Mason