"Having purveyed riff based rock for the early part of their existence before incorporating electronic interludes (on 1993 debut album The Pigeon Is The Most Popular Bird) and experimenting with an all-synthesizer configuration on 1994's Machine Cuisine 10", the 1995 album saw the band attempting to unify these approaches, the result being "one of the most devastating albums of 1995, if not the entire decade" according to Erick Bradshaw, who reviewed the reissue in The Wire 500."
"Severe Exposure is at times reminiscent of futurist punks such as Chrome, Tubeway Army and Devo, but the paranoid, claustrophobic future world it portrays has its own uniquely dank, disturbing flavour. It exudes an atmosphere comparable to that of Detroit's Dopplereffekt - the Detroit outfit similarly concerned with surveillance, technology and totalitarianism. Meanwhile the band's formidable chemistry - having survived an intensely challenging period during which guitarist Peter Phillips left, bassist Kurt Niemand died and guitarist/synthesist John MacLean entered rehab - is on full display,"
Severe Exposure is Six Finger Satellite's 1995 album that unifies earlier riff-based rock, electronic interludes, and all-synth experimentation into a cohesive record. The album projects a paranoid, claustrophobic futurist world with a dank, disturbing atmosphere concerned with surveillance, technology, and totalitarianism. The band's chemistry remained powerful despite lineup upheavals and personal crises, highlighted by the rhythm section of new bassist James Apt and drummer Rick Pelletier. Recording took place in The Parlour, a self-built studio in an industrial space just outside Providence, created by converting a large empty room and constructing interior walls.
Read at The Wire Magazine - Adventures In Modern Music
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