The Latvian stoner rock band Four Minute Man has released their second studio album, The Beast Is Gone, which includes ten energetic songs. A couple of years ago, the association celebrated its successful and promising debut album “Devil Inspired”, so it was eagerly awaited to continue.
“Our second album marks a new but old stage in the group’s evolution. The compositions are the part of the band’s search for and finding of music, which permeates all the works created mostly during the pandemic. Crispy saw, melody, vocals that scream as if on a pink, space-saturating bass, sharp breaks in rhythm and composition, but in the background – organ, celestial stabules, ”the group members. The album was recorded and mixed in Valmiera near Ģirts Laumanis or Lomika, where the debut album of “FMM” was made.
By the way, last week “FMM” was thrown on the coffin of the floating art gallery “Noass”, but this concert was probably not meant for the presentation of the album, because the program included both new and old pieces. Admittedly, the “live” band sounds pretty good – the bass shakes the gut, the drummer layers to the devil, the guitarist takes his string turning very seriously, but above all there is a vocalist who almost pulls out every song, every phrase and every syllable. of himself with such a return as if it were the last thing he had left to do in this life. Oh yes, there is still a keyboard. Highly recommended.
PAR. Immediately after the first hearing of “The Beast Is Gone”, the viewer wanted to dig into the archive, which had been said after the evaluation of the band’s debut album, and it turned out that practically the same could be said now. Namely, “absolute and unpolished nugget of Latvian rock music” and “garage guitar, enthusiastic and energetic performance – we have not heard anything so good for a long time”. The best song – “Bring Me Violence” – “Same Way” and a few other pieces catch my mind. Here’s what a “stoner” rock should sound like!
AGAINST. When the first wave of excitement fades, the initially high rating gradually fades, moreover, the strangest thing is, the more you listen to this album, the more it “turns”. While the Beast Is Gone is perhaps even stronger than its predecessor, it doesn’t have a single piece like Lord Of The Lost or All The Mountains. And yet – the 60’s hand keys are effective in moderate doses, but they start to get too tired. And there is a lot of it here.
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