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Psychic Hi-Fi: Genesis Breyer P-Orridge's Favourite Albums
Joseph Burnett , March 15th, 2020 06:53

The Quietus catches up with Genesis Breyer P-Orridge to hear about the albums that forced the hand of h/er record player (this piece was republished on the event of GPO's death on 14th March 2020)

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Church Universal And Triumphant, Inc. Featuring Elizabeth Clare Prophet - The Sounds Of American Doomsday Cults
This was the hardest one to track down and gather information about. I found a video of some chanting on YouTube.

Isn’t it weird? How do they do that with their voices [ululates manically]? There’s a really good documentary called Death Cults or something, and it shows you them digging this enormous bunker, and [Elizabeth Clare Prophet] says: “The world is going to end on this date with a nuclear war”. The bunker’s not finished on time, but they go down anyway, come back out about a week later and the world hasn’t changed [laughs]. She says the master’s order wasn’t right, and that the world will actually be in four or five months. So they all go back down, and it doesn’t happen. It turns out she has brain tumours, which probably explains the entire cult, and then she dies. But it’s still going! They interviewed them a few years later. The women all look like Elizabeth Clare, with their suburban haircuts and clothes, and big smiles! There’s one piece on the album where they’re cursing pop music, and it’s just stunning. Hilarious. We play them at the beginning when we DJ!