Biography
My Penis Is Made of Dogshit, also known as MPIMOD, is an avant garde noise music group from Grand Rapids, Michigan. They are now based in New York City, New York. The membership of the group has not been disclosed. They have released music exclusively through the New Hampshire-based noise music label Nauscopy.
History
Their first full-length release, titled Satan Gets An Abortion, was positively reviewed and gained some notoriety for its extreme song titles and outre content. It was released in 2008 on Nauscopy, marking the return of the label after several years of dormancy. While the song titles imply a suite concerning Satan and abortion, the lyrical content is unrelated and cryptic. The album features heavy use of non-musical non-sequitur exclamations, broken instruments, group vocals and tape editing.
Their second album, The Last Temptation of Ted Haggard was self-released in early 2009 before receiving a limited CD release through Nauscopy. It is a concept album purporting to detail the rise and fall of pastor Ted Haggard, touching on themes of drug use, Christianity, homosexuality, mental illness, and other rarely combined subjects. Although still recorded in a lo-fi setting with little regard to conventional notation, there is a marked increase in musical activity, including nods toward free jazz, black metal, dance music, acoustic and other genres. The release includes a tribute to John Coltrane's Interstellar Space performed on the recorder, and only a lone singer, as opposed to the group vocals of the previous album. The use of covers, including a black metal rendering of "Kumbaya", foreshadowed the content of their next release.
Current activity
The group's third album, released in 2012, My Satanic Dream Ended, is an album-length reimagining of the record My Teenage Dream Ended by the reality star Farrah Abraham. Overlaying abrasive, experimental effects over the original tracks, and adding instrumentation and black metal-style vocalizations, the album is a notably extreme example of viral remix culture. As with their other albums, there is overwhelming use of free improvisation.
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