We begin to accumulate the work and the records as it always happens year after year… there is too much material to listen to! and it is annoying not to get to everything, in short, there is still a year left and we will give a good account as far as it can go. We started another triad of ‘Oleadas Stoner’ and, perhaps, the common denominator and hence the ‘Ola Híbrida …’ is that the three chosen bands are not guided only by fuzz and monolithic riffs, yes, they like abrasive moments and arid at some point but not pigeonholed into the stoner movement, far from it. Those chosen to open this triad of Waves are the Yankees of Fort Myers, Florida, THE ELECTRIC MUD. They will blow your mind!… JUMP !!!…
You will not be ‘The first assassin on Mars’ but you will be a ‘die hard fan’ wherever they are …
From the marshy banks of the Caloosahatche River, near Fort Myers, come the quartet of Constantine Grim (guitar), Pierson Whicker (drums, percussion), Peter Kolter (vocals, guitar) and Tommy Scott (bass). Their music is a deep southern pastiche mixing Vintage Rock 70’s, Southern, Blues and proto Metal as classic references with more current styles such as Stoner Rock, Sludge and Prog. The band loves the Allmans and the Skynyrd but also has Sabbath on a fucking pedestal so his sonic imagery could remind you at times of Clutch and Black Stone Cherry and others, although less, of Red Fang and Mastodon. His first album, Bull Gator, dates from 2018 and he already gave a good account of the quality of these guys. Burn The Ships (2020) It is going to consolidate its reputation as composers and instrumentalists of all because more than ever it is noticeable that the band has let inspiration flow and in many moments an atmosphere even of ‘jam session’ with bluesy moments and other prog rock, in the case of the ‘feeling’ very worked on tracks like “Priestess” or “Led Belly” with a Sabbath and occult / prog rock setting and with a brutal solace of drums in between by P. Whicker that clearly makes his passion for animals of the patches like John Bonham or Bill Ward. The Florida combo also has its more immediate cuts like the initial “First Murder On Mars” or “Call The Judge” left over from ‘groove’. The desert makes an appearance in “Reptile” and “Good Monster” in its most desert blues aspect. Closing an album with “Terrestrial Birds” is an aural experience where all the essences of the band converge wrapped in epic and southern feeling …
Burn The Ships by The Electric Mud
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