About a minute into song two -- well track one is this twenty second
narrative about the band's quest for honor, glory and fine chicks. what,
no herb?! Surprising, considering the comparative analysis offered up in
their bio, you can damn near smell the stuff as the rumbling engine sits
idle for "No Brakes," defying the fast-paced logic the song title would
dictate as they spark it up? Sounds almost like an early Metallica
outtake before they tear into "Creeping Death" or something.
Canyon
Creep as the name suggests offers up "creepy" feeling Rock, dreaded and
dazed, blazing and bottom heavy, driving itself right into the wall with
a dull thud like many of your favorite Music Cartel/Man's Ruin Mammoth
Volume types. and how low can you go? I'd dare say these guys got their
drill ready and aiming to find out.
"Hijack The World," the song -- love
the words, damned and distorted, their hearts' apparently in the right
place even if they're determined to blow a hole in yours. "I Got the
Shakes" and I got the fire and hot damn, we're catching that old
"Overdose" AC/DC classic Rock vibe with a deep Southern fried Alabama
Thunderpussy/Four Horsemen-like circle the wagon chorus and quick
fingered fade out of the former, nice tune that'll make ya queasy
enough. And if that don't do it for ya, "Warm Beer," thirty seconds
worth of background plucking and symbols, will do the job quite nicely,
save for the early morning headache.
Nice echo effect on "Black Bra"
shows power and promise and probably a little more if they let the
lyrics loose; "Can't Afford You," a true enough gripe with another
catchy riff that drowns out the vocals yet who cares, the guy can't sing
anyway!
Canyon Creep's got the low down smoky-mountain devil's canyon
vibe going in a big foot-to-the-floor way, stomp, swamp, yellow-fever
Rock with a tubular twist different from the rest in that they got a
little angle to their groove -- there ain't enough creativity in this whole
Stoner caravan doom-plodding dawn of the Seventies' thing.
"Yreka's" the
best of the lot, got that amped up Kyuss-like kick going for it with
speed, volume and excessive drinkability -- gotta love it. Ya got nine
songs total, really minus two, so there's about an even split between
heavy revving and mid-shift stall, could use a little gumout here and
there to remove some of those carbon-drenched choral coughs, maybe sand
down a few rust spots and keeping in mind this is self-produced, a
decent disc with plenty o' grit, groove and collapsible rhythms.