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| − | '''''Streetcleaner''''' is the second release and the debut full length album by British [[industrial metal]] band [[Godflesh]]. It was released on November 13, 1989, on [[Earache Records]]. | + | '''''Streetcleaner''''' is the second release and the debut full length album by British [[industrial metal]] band [[Godflesh]]. |
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| − | [[Justin Broadrick]] stated that the drum machine sound was heavily influenced by hip hop artists in the late 80s, particularly the beat on "Christbait Rising": "It was my attempt at copying the rhythm sample on 'Microphone Fiend' by Eric B & Rakim".<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Rock-A-Rolla Magazine|date=Jun–Jul 2010}}</ref> The album cover is a shot from the third hallucination scene in the movie ''Altered States''.
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| − | ''Streetcleaner'' was recorded in several sessions. The first five songs were recorded at Soundcheck in Birmingham, from May–August, 1989. The next five songs (nine on the second CD issue) were recorded at Square Dance in Derby in May, 1989. The last four songs were originally recorded as the ''Tiny Tears'' EP, which the band wanted the label to release as their follow up to the ''[[Godflesh (EP)|Godflesh]]'' EP. [[Earache Records]], however, pushed the band to record a full length album instead, and the ''Tiny Tears'' EP never saw an independent release. The tracks were instead later appended as bonus tracks to the second CD issue of ''Streetcleaner''.
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| − | ''Streetcleaner'' was released on November 13, 1989, on [[Earache Records]]. It was remastered and re-released on June 21, 2010.
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| − | | rev3Score = B+<ref name="EW">{{cite journal|title=Streetcleaner|journal=Entertainment Weekly|date=January 1991}}</ref>
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| − | ''Streetcleaner'' received positive reviews, and was hailed as a creative masterpiece. Ned Raggett of Allmusic said, "Streetcleaner doesn't so much grind as crawl, but it does with an awesome, bass-heavy power",<ref name="allmusic">{{Cite web| url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/streetcleaner-mw0000690769 | last=Raggett|first=Ned | title=Streetcleaner Review | publisher=Allmusic. Rovi Corporation}}</ref> and "Drum machines shatter, shudder, and downright assault, while the riffs the two (or three) cook up are bludgeoning".<ref name="allmusic"/> He also states that "the band deliver everything with a pinpoint precision".<ref name="allmusic"/> In ''The Rough Guide to Rock'', Richard Fontenoy said, "With the heaviest of metal riffs, slowed down to a crushing, claustrophobic pace and backed by a drum machine, Godflesh created a relentless, alienating wall of sound overlaid with feedback, samples, and Broadrick's misanthropic vocals."<ref>{{cite book | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=7ctjc6UWCm4C&pg=PT439&lpg=PT439&dq=godflesh+streetcleaner&source=bl&ots=YDmiEpYGI3&sig=DOs7r8gO1mhOraPoU3n9VYHXEPk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=GIEYUJvbBoms8QS8p4GoAg&ved=0CFcQ6AEwBw#v=snippet&q=godflesh%20streetcleaner&f=false | last=Fontenoy|first=Richard | editor-last=Buckley|editor-first= Peter | title=The Rough Guide to Rock | chapter=The Godfathers: Godflesh | page=432 | year=2003 | publisher=Rough Guides}}</ref> In ''The New Metal Masters'', H. P. Newquist and Rich Maloof wrote, "Never before had one band incorporated metal, industrial, techno, and electronica into a single form—let alone one so sinister sounding."<ref name=new-metal>{{cite book | first1=H. P. | last1=Newquist | first2=Rich | last2=Maloof | title=The New Metal Masters | pages=38–39 |date=May 2004 | publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation}}</ref> Greg Kot of the ''Chicago Tribune'' said that while the vocals were typical of death metal, "the sonic landscape is something else, blending the vicious with the ethereal."<ref name=tribune>{{cite news | url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1991-02-21/features/9101160889_1_star-death-metal-sirens | last=Kot|first=Greg | title=Godflesh Streetcleaner (Combat/Earache... | work=Chicago Tribune | date=February 21, 1991}}</ref>
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