Jeff the brotherhood - Heavy Days

This is one heavy album. Even if the word ‘heavy’ didn’t feature heavily in many of the song titles, I’d still be drawing that conclusion. Sure, it’s the kind of indie punk rock you’d expect from a band that’s played shows with Sonic Youth and Ex Models, but it’s wrapped in a thick coating of METAL and it’s all the more chewy for it.

If Queens of the Stone Age were cooler, less annoyingly precise and more punk rock then they’d probably sound like ‘The Brotherhood. There are monsterous riffs, gnarly solos, metal fuzz, sing along choruses. And then there’s PIL style atonal tunery and Melvins mosh parts

Opener ‘Heavy Days’ is stoner rock on speed – if that isn’t too much of a contradiction. It’s Jason Lowenstein’s Codes with a more kick ass riff. Other standouts are ‘Growing’ – John Lydon jamming with DRI, ‘Heavy Damage’ – a Ramones/Nebula mash up, ‘Heavy Krishna’ which sounds like a DFA produced Black Mountain, Mind Ride – which is kind of like The Knack slowed down – if you played My Sharona at 33rpm it would probably sound like the same band and ‘Bone Jam’ which is, well, just a fucking good song.

Hell, they’re all great tunes – not a gnats’ whisker of filler anywhere on the record.

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