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Post by Smallstone on Feb 7, 2006 13:01:52 GMT 1
Ok maybe not the 1st to hit the streets - but the 1st I've seen anyway! Noel F Gardner in this months UK mag Rock Sound (with some tosh called Bullet For My Valentine on the cover) gives it 7 out of 10. Can't be arsed to transcribe whole review.... but he says it's a 'fine album', 'political' (Hey Thorn - you'd better not buy this record - politics mate - I know how much political songs upset you  , UABS is a 'punk' record (less psychedelic than SWBT). In summary Mr Gardner says: 'The thrill of hearing Mudhoney back and in the raw doesn't just stem from blind nostalgia. UABS may even make you testify, though you'll still feel a silly afterwards' So there you go - 1st review......now where's my copy I won on Ebay!!!!! |
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Post by greesyrice on Feb 7, 2006 21:28:06 GMT 1
thats good id like mudhoney to get back into there punkeir sound
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Post by Thurston_Whore on Feb 7, 2006 22:33:27 GMT 1
Raw Power! i really thought the last album lacked that and lets be honest mudhoney are renound for mostly having it,not saying i dissliked the last album it just was a diffrent side to the band which was also good but i'd like this album to have a bit more power (if thats fair?) and more rawness side to it,but thats just me im sure it will blow me away like all theire other albums have.  |
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Post by ThatDamnRacket on Feb 8, 2006 0:41:26 GMT 1
I think you will be pleased by it then. It does have more power, but also continues on in their new morphing garage psychadelica of their last album.
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Post by Smallstone on Feb 9, 2006 14:34:04 GMT 1
Classic Rock Magazine Review!!
Yes that fine monthly arbiter of taste seem to have given the album 5 out of 10....
Simon Williams (same SW who used to run Fierce Panda Records and write for the NME?) says it's a 'Curious brew'.... mmm interesting. He says 'Confused? You will be....'.
Again can't be arsed to transcribe it all as he says a load of old nonsense really. Touch Me I'm Sick, Grunge, Plaid shirts, Superfuzz pedals. etc etc etc. Jesus journos eh.... you could write this crap in your sleep!!!
They also review that Livewire comp 'Sleepless In Seattle: The Birth Of Grunge' comp and give that 8 out of 10! (Nice Mudhoney pic though...)!!
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Post by h8kurdt on Feb 9, 2006 16:41:58 GMT 1
 OK I'll write it up then. Eighteen years ago Mudhoney released a record called 'Touch me I'm sick' and in the process accidentally invented a wee thing called grunge.
Nine albums later the plaid may be fading but the rock refuses to die. Hard-on for war kicks the same Super-fuzz pedals of yore, yet there is much more besides going on here with the brass sections, politically potent lyrics and Mark Arm howling over an alarming array of heavy musical styles (all the way from prog to punk). A curious brew it is, too, blending the punky rawness of their youth with the complex solos of people who have been playing guitar for two decades. Oh, and In search of sounds like Black Sabbath. Confused? You will be...
5/10Haven't people always said they sound like a mashed up version of sabbath?
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Post by Thurston_Whore on Feb 9, 2006 18:04:16 GMT 1
Ah he wrote for the nme,that says it all,Buy the album when its released and let the music do the talking i say,we'll do a poll when the album it out to see what everyone thought of it yeah. Wont be long now.. ;D
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Post by Thurston_Whore on Feb 9, 2006 18:13:22 GMT 1
...On the other hand if you are a review junkie and like to hear what they all say i kinda like this one best.  You don't have to be the best to win, you just have to win; something I'm sure Mark Arm, Steve Turner et al must be painfully aware of by now. Taking the baton from the awesome Green River they produced the first fully realised grunge record, 'Superfuzz Bigmuff' in 1988. And still to this day it remains arguably the best release the genre ever saw and is certainly better than 'Nevermind', 'Ten' or 'Superunknown'. But fast forward nearly 18 years and where is Arm now? Working in the basement of Sub Pop records, packing crates to earn his rent; surrounded by stacks of albums recorded by people who followed in his footsteps. Luckily he's been allowed a sabbatical to get the old boys back together to record this absolute gem of an album, and seeing he's doing it for Sub Pop, they know he's not wasting his time. Clean of drugs and drink, this record is one of those rare things; a mature effort that doesn't sound toothless; rather precise and vitriolic. 'Where Is The Future' seems to capture this angry mood of bitterness, but the sound is balanced out by a horn section as if the Stooges had signed to Stax in 1972. In fact Craig Flory's work on the horn section is what takes a good set of songs and turns them into a cohesively great album. As well as the internalised bile ('Empty Shells') there is also a new-found interest in the world stage ('Hard On For War', 'It Is Us') but of course it is the renewed dynamism that Arm and Turner seemed to regain on 'Since We've Become Translucent' that really pleases here. 'In Search Of' manages to sound like all things cosmic and rock from Sabbath to Hawkwind, while never sounding anything other than hungry and taut. Fittingly, for a band who have just equalled their best nearly twenty years into their career, they save the best song until last. 'Blindspots' again recalls The Stooges, MC5 trashing their gear at the end of a set before suddenly being ushered off stage by Wilson Picket's backing band to soothe the riotous mob with honeyed soul music. A fabulous record, even if slightly comparable to a really superb looking tree falling over in the middle of a deserted forest. John Doran they gave it 4 and a half out of 5. ;D where is the future? mabye its in this new album. I cant fucking wait now..not long only a few weeks or so. ;D ;D ;D |
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Post by thorn on Feb 20, 2006 13:47:12 GMT 1
indeed
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Post by brokenhands on Feb 20, 2006 16:24:31 GMT 1
Eighteen years ago Mudhoney released a record called 'Touch me I'm sick' and in the process accidentally invented a wee thing called grunge.
Nine albums later the plaid may be fading but the rock refuses to die. Hard-on for war kicks the same Super-fuzz pedals of yore, yet there is much more besides going on here with the brass sections, politically potent lyrics and Mark Arm howling over an alarming array of heavy musical styles (all the way from prog to punk). A curious brew it is, too, blending the punky rawness of their youth with the complex solos of people who have been playing guitar for two decades. Oh, and In search of sounds like Black Sabbath. Confused? You will be...
5/10 Is it just me or does that review seem to suggest a rating rather higher than 5/10? Maybe it was a typo! |
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, UABS is a 'punk' record (less psychedelic than SWBT). In summary Mr Gardner says:
OK I'll write it up then.
