Pleasure Forever -- the San Francisco trio formerly known as SLAVES -- is the musical embodiment of that orgone enigma of human will and desire. Comprised of the deceptively simple instrumentation of piano, guitar and drums, Pleasure Forever merges the feverish hedonism of antique cabaret with the erudite charm of the Doors. It combines the jagged acrobatics of early Queen with the unhinged urgency of the Laughing Hyenas; it pits the mysterious pop of the Zombies against the stoic drone of the Swans; and it fuses the utopian ecstasy of '60s psychedelic pop with the sinister undercurrents of '70s hedonist claustrophobia. The resulting album is a surreal vision of humanity, both ancient and contemporary, that embraces collapse as much as it yearns toward infinity.



The trio first played together in 1995 in the cathartic, dark, skewed-psychedelic noise-wave frenzy known as The VSS, whose sole album, Nervous Circuits and collection of singles, 21:51 are cherished by the indieground.