There is the mythology in
baseball of the “slump buster”. I don't
know if it really works or even really happens.
It might be something that was concocted for the movies, but I'm kinda
thinking it's a real thing. As the myth
goes, a baseball player who just can't get a hit is in a slump, and if the
slump goes on too long the player has to search out a slump buster. Which basically means he has to go out and
find the ugliest woman he can, and have sex with her. Supposedly, once he does this, the slump is
over and he's knocking the ball all over the park again.
I've been in a slump of my own
lately, trying to find some albums that really get me going enough to write
about them. You'd think that when
400-500 albums cross your desk in a year's time this wouldn't be an issue. Well, it can be from time to time, and as I
said I've been in a slump. Then I pushed
play on this album. Slump busted.
The Drip is brutal and ugly in
all the best ways. This is a lethal mix
of grindcore, real old school death metal, and a little hardcore. There's also just a dash of groove that pops
in just for a moment, here and there, right before the next riff hits like a
cast iron skillet to the face. This is
music that is gloriously ugly. It makes
you want to turn it up as loud as you can and just mosh around your living
room, knocking things over, throwing things against the walls, etc. You know, that really good feeling when you
can just RAGE!!
The only issue I have at all
with this album is that it is too short.
Only 6 songs, barely clocking in at 12 minutes. I've listened to it
twice just while I've been writing this.
It's like really good sex; sometimes its over too soon. And also like really good sex, it's leaves
you wanting more. Thankfully, with a CD,
you can just press play and do it all over again. That doesn't always work for sex.
All of these songs are
awesome. My favorites are “Siren”, about
how women can lure you in and you wind up doing all kinds of things with them,
and “Lash In, Lash Out”. And if you read
the lyric sheet, there really are some gruesome poetics going on, so the album
title fits quite nicely.
This is out on Relapse so it
shouldn't be hard to find. Added bonus
for me, the band is from the great state of Washington, and I'm hoping that they are
going to make a trek over the mountains soon so I can check them out. But you can, and should, go buy this CD, or
download it (legally). We need more
ugliness like this in our lives.
- ODIN
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