Year: 2009
Label: RCA
Genre: Psychedelic Hard Rock
TRT: 52:04
As it has been said everywhere I look: 'This isn't as good as Led Zeppelin or Queens of the Stone Age'.....but it should be something different and I think it's at least as good as Queens of the Stone Age. I like the different styles of hard rock that this recording covers. On "Scumbag Blues", I especially like the Cream-esque vocal style. There are certainty parts on this album that aren't so solid though...including a couple songs. I guess the guys think that some of the effects used in these parts can help interest the listener. For these guys just getting together and writing songs, it is good. I'm sure if they had spent a little more time and excluded a few hiccups this would be a really solid release. Check out the song "Reptiles"...it is an especially good one.
01 No One Loves Me & Neither Do I
02 Mind Eraser, No Chaser
03 New Fang
04 Dead End Friends
05 Elephants
06 Scumbag Blues
07 Bandoliers
08 Reptiles
09 Interlude with Ludes
10 Warsaw or the First Breath You Take After You Give Up
11 Caligulove
12 Gunman
13 Spinning in Daffodils
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1 comment:
What I get is a whole bunch of killer riffs, bombastic drumming (Dave's place is definitely behind the kit), groovy bass but many of the songs are unfocused, too long and a bit dragged out. Good album but with trimmings (and substantially lesser compression) it would have been even better. But yeah, riffs like the one at the end of the "Nobody loves me..." still make me drool.
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