Huge Tip! Industrial music legend Chris Connelly returns to his first love with White Phosphorus (Chris Connelly plays Throbbing Gristle), a suitably uncompromising homage to the "random, tense, scary & compulsively fascinating" phase of industrial music's catalysers and ur-agitators. Having carved a twisted career with behemoths Ministry and Revolting Cocks over the past 40 years, starting life with the formidable Fini Tribe and collaborating with disparate characters such as Killing Joke, Cabaret Voltaire, Jim O'Rourke, and too many others, Connelly has returned armed with nothing but a cassette recorder, a reel to reel, a razor blade and some tape.

The Scottish-born musician first discovered Throbbing Gristle through their chilling "Hamburger Lady" on the late night John Peel radio show in 1978, sparking a lifelong obsession that would profoundly influence his artistic journey. As frontman to some of the biggest US acts to emerge from the nuclear fallout of industrial music, Connelly knows a thing or two about the sound, yet White Phosphorus is patently one of his hardest solo efforts. This is industrial music stripped back to its grubbiest early essence, conjuring the spirit of mid-to-late '70s live TG performances with unflinching dedication. Where his other projects tend toward more theatrical stage presentations, on White Phosphorus Connelly grasps the TG nettle and gives it a thorough working through nine fully committed covers. The nerve-burning take on "Zyklon B Zombie" stands as a highlight, alongside the appropriately spirit-gnawing "Industrial Muzak/Very Friendly II" and the bilgy pump of his "Heathen Earth" interpretation. The lead single "Mother Spunk" exemplifies the album's uncompromising approach - so brutal that Connelly felt it had to be the first release, defying all expectations in true TG style.

Created under the most excruciating circumstances using only the bleakest of antiquated analog equipment, White Phosphorus achieves levels of coruscating atonality that have earned the seal of approval from TG's surviving members Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti. Connelly created the cover himself in the spirit of the earliest Throbbing Gristle releases, embracing a '70s Xerox aesthetic that perfectly captures the DIY brutality of the source material.