Sexplosion! by My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult

Sexplosion!, the third album from Chicago's My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, came out on Wax Trax! in 1991, and Groovie Mann himself pegged it as the band's "sexy" record. By then he and Buzz McCoy had steered the Kult away from their harsher industrial beginnings toward a sleazy, glitter-ball disco strut, and this is where that turn paid off: it stands among their biggest hits with buyers and critics alike.

Think throbbing drum machines and come-hither vocals slinking over a dance-floor pulse, with "Sex on Wheelz" tearing down the middle of it like a hot rod through a strobe light. The band's cheeky, satirical fixation on sex, Satan and Jesus had already put them in the PMRC's sights, and the camp menace here is all part of the joke. Confessions of a Knife... came before it; 13 Above the Night followed.

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