Released on: 22nd May 2026
This is one of the wildest albums you can listen to; the production on new album Hurt People Hurt is tighter than a really tight thing. You listen to it on a laptop and it sounds snappy. With the bass tones slapping and supplying some serious bite. You stick it on a 7.1 sound system and it sounds like Raymond Watts and PIG is personally giving you a life coaching. Headphones. And, you are there lapping it up in a trough. The only thing between you and going to market. But, who listens to albums for their trim alone?
The compositions here have that classic KMFDM fusion of funk and heavy rock. Wrapped up in an industrial style box. Considering that Watts was a pioneer in the genre with KMFDM it just goes to show that while you can take the lard out of the bacon, you can’t take the bacon out of the lard. It is a majestic sound and that the new PIG sounds like old KMFDM is a score for all fans involved.
PIGs’ heuristics in production and song writing make for a compelling time. Early on we have socio-environmental chants that are designated ear worms. To be repeated like a self-help mantra. It is part of the lyrical engineering on this album. Where for all its simplicity transmits an intelligence that may seem alien to some; the social commentary finds a harmony between fragile masculinity and virile ritual. Watts voice is ultimately emboldened by strong bass lines and heavy beats.
Hurt People Hurt is like poetry. With its cadence on the pulse of social change. But more than that, it is a good time with an almost perfect production.
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