Vitalizing tunes that work faster than a stream of caffeine
4 August 2026
Photo by E Gabriel Edvy
Artist: PIG
Who: Longtime, English Dark-Goth-wave whirlwind and solo diesel engine
Raymond Watts, who made 15 LPs with German cult band KMFDM and has
several solo ones out, with this year’s piping hot album Hurt People Hurt
as the most recent one.
Track: AN AMERICAN IDEAL OF AMERICA
New single from his upcoming EP, named Dirt Box.
Out September 4th. More info here.
Watts: “I wanted to distil and hone the sound of the current PIG album, ‘Hurt People Hurt’,
so inviting my old partners in swine Marc and Günter to join Jim and myself in the studio seemed the perfect blend of brutality and beauty to feed, fertilise and transmogrify the hog
into Hogzilla. This new single was the first result of our work as a quartet, hammered in the heat of the anvil of hurt.”
TUTV: Wake up, America, here comes PIG. This new blazing electro-burning outburst resonates like it’s performed by a dream team, legendary industrial hotrod aggressors Ministry fronted by Bauhaus‘ iconic maestro Peter Murphy. Sounds pretty awesome, right? You betcha.
The immense vim and vigour at play here is off the charts, with Raymond Watt‘s characteristic, bone-shilling and terrifying vocals grabbing you by the throat for
the full 4 and a half sledgehammering minutes. Ferocious, fulminating, fierce
eruption. PIG rules.
“This is an American ideal of beauty
Put up, shut up, do your duty.”
Hurt People Hurt
.
