What you say
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What we say
 This record left our BRIAN D feeling happy.
Unsure whether Mudhoney are still quite as relevant these days but they have turned into the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion on trk 1 of their new long player (but just a bit which is no bad thing) There's still a heavy demand for quality, fuzzed-up 60's style garage rock so long as it's done with a bit of panache. Which Mark Arm and Co. do with aplomb. There's still a great deal of the original dynamic left on 'The Lucky Ones' which is really heartening as previous albums have left me quite cold but i'm feeling this one a helluva lot more. Obviously they're not as fast as they used to be but i'm getting plenty of that old Mudhoney sound (which was never "grunge" - that was Tadgarden etc) These guys always rocked like a bunch of funky monkeys on meth, partying in basements and no doubt dancing with girls on top of hot trailer roofs whilst moulting dogs laze in the sun & grizzled truckers grin toothless smiles in awe of the super big fuzzy muff squall coming outta the huge speaker stack they stuck outside Grandpa Joe's chicken shack. Oh i've gone off into Brianland again. If you like to dream that the UK charts don't exist & you want your old party band back then purchase this folks! LP/CD on Sub Pop
What the label says:
Worldwide lovers of the finer things are rejoicing at the news that
Mudhoney, yep Mudhoney, is back in action in 2008 with The Lucky Ones,
the
band’s eighth full album in a mere 20 years of triumphant
rocking. Deliberately and aggressively raw, The Lucky Ones sounds as
lean and as full-on
as any modern equivalent one cares to mention.
Recorded in a scant 3.5 days (including overdubs) with Tucker Martine
(who also recorded four
songs on the previous album, Under a Billion
Suns), Mudhoney went in armed with a batch of new material expecting to
spend a fair amount of time
getting it right. Bang—and bang again
after some mixing—and a new album was birthed in record time, faster
than anything else the band’s done to
date. The grand majority of
these numbers were intentionally written “from the rhythm up” instead
of from the riff and the lyrics down. The effect is
to thrust out
the bottom-end rumble of drummer Dan Peters and bassist Guy Maddison,
and to bring about a cohesive whole not entirely ruled by the
almighty
riff—although you certainly don’t have to look hard to find ‘em.
Opening The Lucky Ones, the band defiantly looks twenty years of
heaviness
and critical hosannas in the eye and spits out the anthemic “I’m Now,”
an existential place where “the past makes no sense, the future
looks tense.” Finding eager new converts locked firmly in the present who’ll agree should not prove difficult. |
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