| Nude With Boots The Melvins Ipecac **** What do you do after being in business for 25+ years? Well, if you’re Mick Jagger you keep on keeping on, or at least until Keith Richards’ contract with the devil runs out and he is forced to return back to the eighth circle of hell. But what do you do if you’re Seattle band The Melvins? Well you do what you do best you put another album in the can. King Buzzo Osborne and co-founding member, Dale Crover are back with Nude With Boots which marks the newest release for The Melvins. This time they brought back some friends, welcoming the annexation of Jared Warren and Coady Willis from Big Business. They also played on The Melvins critically acclaimed 2006 release (A) Senile Animal. This is quite a feat concerning The Melvins’ past: Osborne and Crover don’t play nice. ‘The Melvins’ lineup has been a revolving door since there conception. So what made Osborne and Crover change their tune? Well, you keep what works, and Nude With Boots works. Picking up right where Senile Animal left off, Nude With Boots screams back ‘NO WE WILL NOT GO QUIETLY INTO THE NIGHT’! Letting us know what the Seattle scene was all about in the first place. Even though The Melvins didn’t prosper from the early nineties scene in their hometown, Boots opens our eyes to where all that inspiration came from. With songs like “Suicide in Progress”, “Billy Fish” and the feedback-drenched “Savage Hippy”, The Melvins don’t make any changes on Nude With Boots, they might repeat a few old tricks, but they still have a few rabbits in their hats and NO! THEY WILL NOT QUIETLY INTO THE NIGHT! |
| Milagrosa Totimoshi Volcolm **** Can something be two completely different things at the one time? Any drunken monkey can understand that something can be two different things at different times, but how can something be two different things at the exact same time? I don’t know but it just can. A perfect example is Totimoshi’s sophomore release, Milagrosa. It’s loose and tight, gritty and polished, heavy and soft, and somehow it works. Totimoshi is the gritty California Bay-Area band that manages to fuse their Latin heritage, (guitarist Tony Aguilar is the son of migrate workers, and bassist Meg Castellanos comes from a Cuban background) with early Black Sabbath and early grunge influences, and it doesn’t hurt to have Helmet guitarist, Page Hamilton produce your record. Think Los Lobos and Tony Imoni caught in a jam session. The Latin side of their sound shines through on songs like “Last Refrain” and “Little Bee”. It’s hard to imagine Milagrosa without the Latin influence if it wasn’t there it be another run of the mill hard rock record, but possessing it makes it hard to dismiss. But then again, I’m sure metal heads and punkers across the board will do just that and that makes the discovery sweeter yet for the rest of us. |
| Every Fight is A Food Fight When You’re A Cannibal Safari So Good Champion Ship ***½ Safari So Good is a band from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania that isn’t afraid to have a little fun, and obviously doesn’t take themselves too seriously. Every Fight Is A Food Fight When You’ re A Cannibal is the debut EP from the hybrid group made up of former members of Breaking Pangaea and The Commercials. Every Fight is A Food Fight When You’re A Cannibal may only have four tracks, but they are chocolaty pop-punk goodness in the vein of A Simple Plan, except with a shit ton more energy. Every Fight is A Food Fight When You’re A Cannibal ‘s songs may have absurd titles like “Dogs With Bees in Their Mouths Who When They Bark They Shoot Bees at You” but they can argue with radio friendly hooks that could catch a Mino, like on “A Pirates Life For Me” and the mellow, acoustic cover version of “Perfect”. Stay tuned for the full length. |
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