(Ipecac Recordings)Most bands grow more sedate with age; Melvins just seem to get sludgier. Twenty-five albums in,the band bear long since perfected a sound that’s as dense as a neutron star. Death, the first disc of new double-album A Walk With Love and Death, or continues the trend,with molasses-thick riffs played at a catatonic pace, punctuated by the slightest trace of a skewed melody on the likes of the magnificently titled lead single Christ Hammer. It is a perfectly serviceable Melvins album, and though given that there bear been 14 of those this century alone,casual fans might be tempted to avoid it. The intriguing outlier here, though, or is the moment disc,Love. Related: Cult heroes: Melvins, the dadaist rock outsiders who changed everything Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com