MINISTRY 'WITH SYMPATHY' LP (Import)

LABEL: Music On Vinyl
VINYL RELEASE DATE: 12/20/2019
ALBUM RELEASE DATE: 5/10/1983
VARIANT: 180 Gram Black Vinyl LP

Well before Al Jourgensen became one of the most menacing figures in industrial-metal history, he was a 24-year-old kid plying synth-pop sounds on Ministry’s 1983 debut LP, With Sympathy. Fully absent of the thrash-gnarled riffs and junk-sick screams that fueled the band’s classic Psalm 69 era, With Sympathy instead brings buoyant drum machine beats and pop-squiggled keyboard melodies to the dancefloor — Chicagoan Jourgensen sang “Revenge” through an endearing faux-Brit accent. While the record was maligned by its creator for decades, Ministry’s misunderstood debut only gets better with age.