Pop Will Eat Itself - Two Fingers My Friends & Dos Dedos Mis Amigos [2CD Limited Edition] (1995)

The final Pop Will Eat Itself album as such, not counting the remix version of this release that followed some months later, Dos Dedos Mis Amigos is the most serious album the band ever attempted, both lyrically and, given the heavier music, sonically. The giddy rush of albums like This Is the Day and Cure for Sanity had always been punctuated by darker, often surprisingly accomplished songs, but on Dos Dedos the ratio was reversed and the stridency pumped up to even louder levels. Opening track "Ich Bin Ein Auslander," with its references to anti-immigrant sentiment in England and the grinding collapse of Yugoslavia set to a pounding "Kashmir"-derived riff, sets the tone and pretty well keeps it throughout the album.