Must be the season for heavy stoner / psychedelic rock: 11Parnoias’ Reliquary For A Dreamed Of World offers no shortage of crushing riffs that are warped and twisted, thre’s a new album from Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard, and now the mighty Hornss.
This is big on the stoner side, with crazy vocal effects as integral to the sound as the hefty, overdriven riffs and stonking, gut-rumbling bass. Unlike many of their peers, Hornss demonstrate something of a punk edge, an appreciate the value of keeping things concise: the overloading ‘Atrophic’ goes hell-for leather and is all over in under two minutes, and many of the album’s 11 tracks clock in at well under three minutes.
‘Sargasso Heart’ comes on like Kiss duelling with Kyuss, and there’s no short of boogie between the grind on ‘Telepath’, and often, elements of vintage hard rock are evident, and the poppier end of the Melvins catalogue is also called to mind. ‘The Black Albatross’ sees them in full-on Spinal Tap rock cliché mode, but they pull it off neatly, combining the enormous serving of cheese with some hefty grunt and chug, the whole track being driven by a bassline the size of an oil tanker.
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