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Brant Bjork is one of those musicians whose understated brilliance one can imagine Lester Bangs endlessly praising in an obtuse and meandering essay (were Bangs not twenty-five years dead). Bjork’s music is of the sort that inspires and requires uncompromising loyalty from his devotees and to those not indoctrinated, may seem easily dismissed.

Read a bio of Brant Bjork and you will most likely encounter a roster of “desert” or “stoner” bands that he once graced with his presence behind the skins: Kyuss, Fu Manchu. But the remarkable thing about Bjork’s solo material is the absence of the heaviness generally associated with the apocryphal desert rock label (or stigma, depending on who you are talking to). Mr. Bjork has made a career out of breaking stock stoner-rock character into something of a slacker funk enigma ever since his first solo album Jalamanta surprised and befuddled fans of the aforementioned stoner schtick. – Blog Critics Magazine

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