Melvins - Hostile Ambient Takeover
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Artist: MelvinsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2002-04-16
Music Label: Ipecac Recordings
Soundtracks:
- Black Stooges
- Untitled
- Dr. Geek
- Little Judas Chongo
- The Fool, The Meddling Idiot
- The Brain Center At Whipples
- Foaming
- The Anti-Vermin Seed
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Free Music Review: A Fun Blast
Hit: 4 Stars
"Hostile Ambient Takeover" is a flourishing blast of modern day Melvins. It is about as accessible as the band can get, boasting few moments of their trademark experimentation (which often boils down to abrasive noise) and no thick walls of guitar drone a la "Lysol" or moments of "Houdini". While this may disappoint some of the hardcore Melvins fan who prefer the old slugging dirge, it should please the majority, and do well to bring in new fans.
Like the majority of post "Houdini" albums, "HAT" is a great album, but doesn't quite live up to past classics. At times they show blistering form, with Buzzo combining his huge bombastic riffs and solos with powerful vocals in "Black Stooges" and "Brain Center At The Whipples". "HAT" also boasts the thick wall of sound the band is famous for with the slow burners "The Fool, The Meddling Idiot" and "The Anti Vermin Seed", both songs rife with intensity. Unfortunately the album falls short in places, such as "Foaming" which promises much, but ultimately meanders through dull plodding. "Dr. Geek" is a rather novelty song, with Buzzo singing in some kind of bizarre down-south-farmer voice, and soon becomes filler. These blemishes make "HAT" inconsistent, and being a relatively short album (as most recent Melvins albums are) the inconsistencies become more glaring. For this reason I cannot rank "HAT" up there with past greats such as "Houdini", but I can recommend it as a good Melvins release with much to explore and enjoy.
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2002 album is a flavorful mix of quiet intensity and noisy calm. 8 glorious tracks to mess with your mind!Since 1987 this power trio has churned out Black Sabbath-influenced grind-sludge metal for a fanatical underground following. Part of the early '90s "Seattle scene," the Melvins never achieved the radio airplay of their contemporaries, though founding members Buzz "King Buzzo" Osborne (the eccentric, Afro-ed singer-guitarist) and Dale Crover (drummer-vocalist) are beloved and prolific fixtures on the indie rock scene. Their latest seven-song outing on fellow quirky musician (and Osborne's Fantomas bandmate) Mike Patton's Ipecac label will likely not boost them out of relative obscurity, but it's an entertaining aural journey nonetheless. From the heady 'n' heavy intensity of "Black Stooges," which ends with several minutes of drums and feedback, to the winning speedy, countrified punk power of "Dr. Geek" and the garage metal of "Little Judas Chongo," Hostile Ambient Takeover is, as the title suggests, at once more punky and more ambient than previous swampy efforts. There are some lengthy, ponderous, slo-mo entries, which is not unexpected of the Melvins, while the nearly 16-minute album closer is a wash of mostly instrumental noise that ranges from ominous to space age (vocals kick in 10 minutes into the song). Oddball but engaging, the Melvins have carved out a unique niche, which they dig deeply into on Hostile Ambient Takeover, their 18th album of aural idiosyncrasy. --Katherine Turman
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