Shellac
Dude Incredible
Steve Albini's current band kick off their new album with a song about monkeys trying to get laid - this is completely unsurprising. That's the kind of guys we're dealing with here. I've got to be honest, Shellac has always been my least-favourite Albini band, and this album hasn't changed that, but they're still better than ninety per cent of the other bands out there, and Dude Incredible is a solid album. As always, Shellac know their way around a groove, and most of the songs here are built around repetitive, swinging guitar lines and rolling drums that give the album a great drive. The whole thing could be the soundtrack to some epic battle scene in a war film. In a lot of ways, Shellac are a jam band, but without any of the self-indulgent noodling that that implies - they know how to take a riff and run with it, while ensuring that no song overstays its welcome. This is an album that definitely deserves repeat listens.
Rating: 7/10
No comments:
Post a Comment