Pork Soda

Nearly twenty years later, it still blows my mind that this album was Primus’s commercial breakthrough. Not just because it is (still) the most bizarre, least accessible thing they’ve released, but also because it is a genuinely unsettling permutation of their sound. Primus’s efforts before and after touched on a variety of moods, but at the end of the day, the band was always best described as “quirky,” if only for lack of a more fitting, less derisive term. Pork Soda dodges that description almost entirely. Pork Soda is dark and ugly. Pork Soda gives me the fucking creeps.