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MONSTER MAGNET Milking The Stars: a re-imagining of Last Patrol
MUSEUM OF LOVE Museum Of Love
NEW FOUND GLORY Resurrection
Napalm Records (2014)
DFA Records (2014)
Hopeless Records (2014)
Monster Magnet’s tenth album Milking The Stars is a “re-imagined” version of Last Patrol featuring four new tracks and some live tracks. We must praise Monster Magnet, personally it’s wonderful to see living legend Mr.Dave Wyndorf well and back to what he does best, amazing music! It’s quite impressive to see how powerful and hypnotic is Dave Wyndorf’s voice, fitting perfectly in this some kind insane rock n’ loud flashy psychedelic re-imagining of their latest effort, Last Patrol. Milking The Stars... will for sure take you on a journey from pounding heavy rock through psychedelic interludes, we can really imagine this altogether as both a stylistic alternate reality or some kind of cinematic experience.
From the drummer of LCD Soundsystem arises Museum of Love, a band as electronic as the first, but with a completely different music scene that shows further exploration by experimentalism. More than LCD Soundsystem, MOL reminds me of the 80’s bands like Depeche Mode and Pet Shop Boys, among other icons. I confess that the song did not grab me. All the entire work somewhat is dispersed with more or less romantic attempts and picks up on successful formulas and captivating sounds. The classic electronic beat does not please me in particular, leaving to meet some interesting elements and nice textures throughout the project, but not enough to be able to evaluate this work as a result that makes me ask for more. Dispersed. Strange. Too synthesized and too synthetic. Love the sax.
Florida group New Found Glory are no rookies in the pop-punk scene. Since 1997 that they have been releasing catchy and infectious tunes. Last year they made an announcement that kind of shocked fans. The founding member and guitarist Steve Klein was parting ways with the band for unfortunate reasons. With that, they wrote and recorded Resurrection as a fourpiece and the album’s title speaks for itself. These new songs are arise from the band and were written in a very cathartic way, where there are upbeat songs as well heavier songs. Resurrection has well-crafted tunes and polished hooks, with the always emphasis Jordan’ vocals and lyrics, and some special guests like Scott Vogel of Terror on the title-track.
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FAUSTO CASAIS
Fu Manchu, Hermano, Nebula
NUNO TEIXEIRA
Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys
ANDREIA ALVES
State Champs Blink 182, Neck Deep
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OBLITERATIONS Poison Everything
OOZING WOUND Earth Suck
ORANGE GOBLIN Back From The Abyss
Southern Lord (2014)
Thrill Jockey (2014)
Candlelight Records (2014)
Dirty grooves, belligerence and plenty of fast, hard riffing – these are the things that grant punk a special place in our hearts, and Obliterations deliver them by the shedload. The Massachusetts massive’s debut is a diseased concoction that owes as much to Mötörhead’s hoarse, gravel ‘n’ bass ‘n’ speed charm as the vitriolic polemics of Black Flag, a true cross-over sound as raw and chaotic as anyone could hope for. The title track may drop the pace back to a predatory, prowling stomp and “Shame” throws in a black metal sheen to make its cacophonic point, but these diversions only stress the crux of Obliterations’ point – that life isn’t easy, it isn’t always fun and it sure as hell ain’t pretty.
Oozing Wound’s second record is more mature than their debut album, it’s clearly powerful on the riffs, on the attitude and on the sarcastic humor, an icon of the band. Recorded in three days, “Going Through the Motions Till I Die” track, reminds us some of Black Sabbath riffs: a dark, heavy but slow, sick song. We might think that after this the music’s direction changes radically but not so. The rest of the record remains raw, fast, aggressive and ironic. “Bury Me With My Money” is like a slap on your face like the whole “speed ahead” record. Oozing’s provocative lyrics against wild capitalism or social habits allied with awesome technics transform this Earth Suck into a complete pleasure.
British stoner kings are back with their new effort, Back From The Abyss. Stoner Rock nowadays seems to be on a high note with heavy music fans, judging by the proliferation of releases that carry the Black Sabbath flag. This can be a tricky path because either you have something to distinguish you from the rest of the pack, or you end up falling into oblivion. Luckily, Orange Goblin have attitude and style to boot, and are perfectly capable of standing on their own on an ever increasing realm of bands that by choice of imposition tend to follow trend and fashion. What you have here is a band that knows what they want to achieve with their sound and do it with panache.
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DAVID BOWES
Black Flag, Black Breath, Baptists
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ANA CARVALHO
Sabbath riifs, good trash and hate grunge
Motorhead, Black Sabbath, Kyuss
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