Brand Bjork shouldn't be referred to as the x KYUSS drummer but as a musician of his own status and history. Another album with his new band and the power trio ,is on the forefront. MASTERS OF REALITY, CREAM,CACTUS,Jimi Hendrix are all present. Psychedelic heavy guitars, stripped down, monolithic drums and groove are all ever present. Songs like "Down the mountain", "Duck the daze" arte among the best songs that Hendrix and MOUNTAIN never wrote.
Mario Lalli (Yawning Man, Fatso Jetson, Desert Sessions) on bass guitar and Brant BJORK band alumni Ryan Güt on drums are Bjork's musical companions and they share the same vision. The Frank Marino inspired "Magic surfer magazine" is a slow, tripy musical wave that explodes on the shores of the Californian desert, on the stoned brains jetty. The groove goes on at "Sunshine (is make love to your mind)" a six minute song, full of bare down drums and a bass line that wakes up the dead in the desert,creating desert corruption and gaps where magical mushrooms reveal, to devour the loveless world. What i love at BBT is that they live music to breath, no selfishness and egoism, just the groove that doesn't necessary has to support the lead singer, guitar player role but evolves organically, like the Eden's serpent around the listener till it takes him /her to the cosmic void,where it came from."Once upon a time in the desert" is an album of a power trio, that enjoyed been in the studio together, exchanging grooves and ideas together. A trio that loves the distortion, the fuzz and the low frequencies and lives in a steady diet of late 60s,early 70s rock bands. 'Rock n roll in the dirt" is a slow dive in the heavy groove of the band, dirty and distorted,with slow, sludge melodies, a bit on the QOTSA side but less alternative and more 70s inspired.
In 42 min, this trio sets the standards for some primitive, stripped down, bare, soulful rock n roll with distortion as the high priest of their preaching, a psychedelic journey to the center of the desert universe
.7,5
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