Month: February 2023

review of MACHIAVELLIAN ART – INDOCTRINATION SOUNDS

we have rabidly reviewed this space sludge masterpiece

You can always count on Riot Season Records to bring something innovative AND heavy. Case in point – Machiavellian Art. A sort of sludge metal Hawkwind. So brutally heavy it could crush a skyscraper yet there’s this space rock core at the center of it. When he’s not doing a crust punk roar, the singer lets rip with some blistering saxophone. There’s fuzzy noises amidst the guitar tsunamis. The bass lines could make cheese on toast out of a goat and a sack of wheat in five seconds flat. Listening to this stuff on your headphones and you’d be able to make a third set of devil horns with your mind. The only question is which planet that devil occupies.

Review of CARLTON MELTON – RESEMBLE ENSEMBLE

earths most reliable sonic cosmonauts are back

First recording featuring the new four piece line-up so nobody has to multi-task now and the results feel very effective.  This one features some of their sweetest riffing yet and when it’s set to a huge, swirling sea of sound and pushed on its way by the crashing rhythms, it sounds positively heroic.

Carlton Melton have always made the most engrossing musical landscapes that a listener could possibly wish to lose themselves in but this time it feels both more focused and more spontaneous

This is the finest Californian headfood you could wish for. Sail on, everyone!