Showing posts with label stoner rock. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stoner rock. Show all posts

Tuesday, 10 January 2012

Freedom Hawk - Sunlight (2008)



Sounding like the bastard son of Ozzy era Sabbath and Fu Manchu, Freedom Hawk play stoner driven metal groove with a healthy dose of psychedelic vibes to top things off. A tight as fuck rhythm section drive the songs along and the guitars which have all distortion settings turned on full, deliver sublime soloing. Apart from killer riffs, they also have great melodies which just seem "right" for the song. The album has an unstoppable feel to it - it just motors along without feeling the need to produce lengthy tracks just for the sake of it.

Wednesday, 23 November 2011

Earthless - Sonic Prayer

Ask and ye shall receive word nerd; here is one of my favourite weirdie beardie avant psych albums.

Two tracks at just over 20 minutes each of thick, drugged out, fuzzed out stoner/space/psychedelic rock from genre titans Earthless. The first track - the unfuckingreal Flower Travellin' Man - you may recognise from Such Hawks Such Hounds.

Wednesday, 2 November 2011

Melvins - (a) Senile Animal

We were supposed to be going to see Melvins tonight. But because the driver had double booked to go and see James on the same night (fucking JAMES..."whoah sit down next to me" James, fucking horseshit) we are instead just going to sit huddled, crying over pictures of Dale Crover while Colossus of Destiny plays in it's entirety repeatedly in the background. Probably. Well I know I am.

This is the first album they released with Jared and Coady from Big Business, and in all honesty is probably my favourite Melvins release of all time. As quirky as is traditional for this band, the songs are all still catchy as hell, and the album is pretty much riff after riff after riff. The dual-vocals of Buzz and Jared make for some awesome strained-sounding harmonies, whilst Dale and Coady's double-drumming really adds whole new dimensions to tracks like 'A History of Bad Men' - my favourite of the record. I'd recommend this to newcomers and veterans of Melvins fandom alike.