Harvey Milk - A Small Turn Of Human Kindness

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5...according to our Business Lady on Fri 04 Jun, 2010.

Harvey Milk are the only band i can think of that actively rip the piss out their own fans for enjoying their self-depreciating slabs of booze induced sludge rock whilst simultaneously pandering to said audience by reforming and making awesome records that everyone who likes them would want to hear. It's cynicism working on new and ever powerful levels. But fuck what Harvey Milk think of themselves (and us), i still reckon they are up there with the best rock bands the modern world has to offer, so they'll just have to learn to live with it. I don't think Joe Preston is playing on this record but it doesn't make a huge amount of difference as 'A Small Turn of Human Kindness' is a masterpiece by comparison to the now tame sounding party rock (i use that term loosely in reference to these guys) LP "Life the Best Game in Town....". Though the album is made up of seven tracks it all seems to bleed into one almighty doom power sauce that must be consumed in one gulp to fully enjoy. It's consistently slow. It's consistently heavy whilst possessing many a beautiful melodic passage and counter guitar harmony. It's the fucking tits basically. It's even got a tune with Mellotron on it! YES! It's probably the best record they've ever made. It's certainly up there with 'My Love is Higher than your assessment of What My Love could be' and 'Courtesy and Good Will to all Men'. I'm totally exceeding the word count here but you get the idea. Fuck Harvey Milk and buy this album today. PEACE OUT!

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Harvey Milk's "A Small Turn of Human Kindness," is the difference between watching a movie like Irreversible vs. watching a movie like Independence Day Both good films, however the first stimulates a foreign mixture of emotions that require you to sleep it off, whereas the latter concludes with you feeling comfortable with the fact that you're a lazy, wasteful, culturally sequestered American who has sat through this fucking movie way too many times in his/her life! So, I think you get the idea, "A Small Turn of Human Kindness," is as dense and as heavy temperamentally as it is musically. The seven songs so subtly bleed together that the listener has no choice, but to view the entire album as a linear orchestration with a singular ebb and flow. A rising and falling action, refined to hell and back.. And so, all of these things lead me to believe that any and all true Harvey Milk fans will eventually argue this record as the band's finest work Or at least the vinyl version will become the quintessential mantle-piece for a generation of suburban children slumming it in the inner city you know who you are! BIO: Harvey Milk is a sludge/noise rock outfit formed in the early 1990's from savannah, Georgia. Harvey Milk disbanded around 1997. Due to increased popularity while the group was no longer active, the band reformed (around 2008). Hydra Head released the bands first new record after the hiatus, "Life the Best Game in Town...." "A Small Turn of Human Kindness" is title of the first track on the band's first proper release... and their seventh proper full-length release

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