MILLIONAIRE have been a particularly deadly thorn in rock's bloated torso of late, and with new single "I'm On A High" they're drawing blood once again.
Perhaps inevitably - bearing in mind Josh Homme is in the producer's chair and Joe Barreis again handles mixing chores - Queens Of The Stone Age spring to mind, but "I'm On A High" is a heavier, queasier affair than ever before, driven relentlessly along by singer Tim Vanhamel's gritty riffing, the rhythm section's heatseeking accuracy and Aldo Struyf's Allen Ravenstine-style synth splurges. It's disorienting, heady and a potentially toxic elixir, but you'll still want to quaff wantonly.
B-side "Messed Up & Beautiful", meanwhile, more than lives up to its' title, too. it's powered on by lunkhead drumming, and looming, elephant-breaking-wind basslines courtesy of Bas Remans and is a lurching Frankenstein's monster of a rocker that foams at the mouth and turns green, but never quite collapses in on itself.
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There are a couple of filthy remixes, too, of which the Sickboy mix - all glitchy electronica - is probably the more obnoxious, but ultimately these are merely sideshows to the main event, and with "I'm On A High" Millionaire once again prove they can live up to the debauched majesty conjured by their name. Hitch a ride on their private jet and simply indulge.
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