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Melvins || Listen

With a similar sardonic glee, Melvins (now swollen to a quartet with the addition of Coady Willis and Jared Warren of L.A.’s Big Business) add to their already-weird canon with this latest 10-song bounty. Willis and Warren are themselves known for prostration before the almighty riff, and the partnership seems to have inspired in Messrs. Crover and Osbourne a measured return from their recent, more experimental work to the rock and roll drawing board. No trifling from the lead-off “The Talking Horse,” which blasts off with a tenderizing fuzz bass grind and interlocking play from the dual drummers. Here and throughout the record, the band’s new double-kit approach steers clear of bash-happy exploitation, and Crover, for one, downplays his megaton-concussion capability. When not locked into unison, honest-to-gawd grooves, Crover and Willis squeeze off clackety, dueling cymbal and percussive patterns and superimposed fills. “Horse,” along with “The Blood Witch,” introduces the Melvins’ new three-throated vocal attack - nearly every stanza is delivered via a raucous gang harmony. - Dusted Magazine

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1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

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