Melvins – Nude with boots
Posted by PacMusic on July 14, 2008
Like having sewage poured down your throat.
I say that, not because the album is bad, but because its so drity and grimy and sludgy that there is no other comparason for it.
Typing the name of the album into google, I get some interesting results, and became somewhat distracted while trying to listen to the album. Ten minutes of distracted browsing later, I returned to the album.
The album sounds like I’m listening to it with my head in a big wooden box, the muted sounds of the guitar and the deep bass hang heavy in this album, while simple riffs play out behind the dry vocals.
Mainly slow paced, it drags you slowly through the album, like a monster taking it’s screaming prey to it’s inevitable demise. The final track ‘It tastes better than the truth’ is obviously about the eating of human flesh by the ravenous beast, the track containing appropriate screaming and sounds of doom.
Overall, the album is simple, powerful and strong. There is little in the way of interesting new ground covered in this album as it plods its way along, with the odd outburst of faster, more flewant music.
Listen to this album: While slowly sinking up to you neck in mud.
Rating: 74%
Extracts from ‘The Kicking Machine’, ‘Dies Iraea’, ‘The Smiling Cobra’ and ‘It tastes better than the truth’
‘Honey Bucket’
