Screaming Trees - Uncle Anesthesia
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Artist: Screaming TreesEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1991-02-02
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Beyond This Horizon
- Bed of Roses
- Uncle Anesthesia
- Story of Her Fate
- Caught Between
- Lay Your Head Down
- Before We Arise
- Something About Today
- Alice Said
- Time for Light
- Disappearing
- Ocean of Confusion
- Closer
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Hit: 5 Stars
With all the undue attention on Sweet Oblivion and Dust, this album gets rather unfairly overlooked. Those are okay albums, but they document the Screaming Trees during what amounts to (and you'll agree after hearing the rest of the back catalog) their slowdown. They are comfortable records by a band that finally achieved their little bit of spotlight.
Uncle Anesthesia, on the other hand, came out just prior to the Seattle grunge strip-mining boom. It is sequenced with listening in mind -- moods shift and instruments attack and decay in just the right spots. As their first major-label release, Lanegan's voice and the Connor brothers instruments get the right amount of weight and space. Chris Cornell does a fine job of producing. Mark Pickerel makes his final appearance on drums, to be replaced by the more overstated playing of Barrett Martin on Oblivion and Dust. Yet here Pickerel makes some fine contributions to the proceedings, as songs like "Alice Said" and "Time For Light" attest.
Uncle Anesthesia is steeped in American garage rock, a love for the 13th Floor Elevators/Nuggets box sets, vintage sounding effects pedals, and dusty lysergic poetry. Coupled with all that is a deft understanding of melody and energy that ebbs and flows in the service of each song, unafraid to introduce new elements (like the swirling horns of "Disappearing" or the recorder played by Cornell on "Lay Your Head Down"), but not owned by production flourishes (as the eastern-tinged conceits of Dust occasionally were).
There are no real "hits" here, although "Bed Of Roses" should have been. But there is an album-worth of solid, memorable songs tastefully and muscularly rendered, garage-psychedelia at an early high water mark. Unsung as it (mostly) was, this album is one of the best encapsulations of the early grunge sound that does not have a baby in a swimming pool on its cover.
This is easily one of the finest American rock albums of the 90s. Work your way backward from here.
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