Fuck yeah! Finally I get something cool in the mail. New Mudhoney biotch! Here's the press release. Dig on this: "Mudhoney is a four-piece rock group from the old, weird Seattle. For 18 years they have plugged into wall sockets all over the world, proving to be one of the most consistently electrifying acts to survive the grunge implosion, whatever that was. The wolfish howls of singer Mark Arm, soulful splatterings of guitarist Steve Turner and frenzied fills of drummer Dan Peters have produced 9 albums to date, most of which are considered neo-garage classics. In addition, they have had two bassists over the years, Matt Lukin, who retired in 1999, later replaced by the inimitable Australian Guy Maddison. Under a Billion Suns is the band's new long-player and it's performed with the same amplified urgency of their previous work. While history has shown musicians to be a largely unreliable lot, Mudhoney has never swayed in its vision of making really loud rock music and this album is no exception. Produced with the help of three notable knobsters (Phil Ek, Johnny Sangster, Tucker Martine) and boasting a blaring horn section, Under a Billion Suns exposes a more snidely political-fueled side to our shaggy heroes, but one revealed through the invariables of the Mudhoney recipe: thick, soggy punk riffs and underrated guitar dynamics, psychedelic tangents and snot-nosed finger-pointing. It is loud, it is fierce, and it is here for our world right now. Lucky for us, so is Mudhoney." They've re-recorded "Hard On For War" off of "Gimme Skelter" and it sounds even better. The first song on here, "Where Is The Future", has horns on it and I'm not scared to say that "I'm grooving to it". Don't get scared of the horns kids... think "Funhouse", The Stooges did it, it's ok. This record hits stores March 3rd 2006. In the meantime go buy the new Mojo that has "The Story Of Grunge" and NIrvana on the cover, it rules. I'm so grunge I don't shower.
(Download - "Where Is The Future")
(Download - "Hard On For War")
It looks like Brakes will be my last post of 2005, so you're gonna have to suck on this one until next year. I reccomend throwing this record on while you're trying to consume as many substances and as much alcohol as possible tonight on New Years Eve, simply cuz it's "fun". Yeah, I said fun. Sixteen songs in under thirty minutes from the keyboard player of British Sea Power, prefect for people with little or no attention span (like me). Plus they dish out a cover of Johnny Cash's "Jackson" (with Leila Moss of The Duke Spirit lending some vocals) and a cover of The Jesus & Mary Chains "Sometimes Always" as well, and you know you can't fuck with that. Happy New Year otters.
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