The stakes aren’t high on Devil Music, an album that feels less like a career marker for The Men and more like a simple, straightforward gift that they had a blast making, and something they hope you’ll like too.
The Men retreat to their caustic roots with a raw and furious album that, while often predictable, is still a prime example of how well they rage.
Devil Music sounds like The Men took that talent, gave into their most primal, terrifying desires, and built a raucous, bruising—and never harmless—noise out of it.
Devil Music is unabashed reverence, almost innocuously so, but articulated with thunderous gravity and primitivism, if not focus. It won’t feature on many end of year lists, but it’s a helluva road trip, albeit one you’ll forget a year later.
La vuelta a los orígenes estilísticos de estos indolentes rockeros, es decir, la anarquía sonora, no sale tan bien como acostumbraron en sus primeros años. Después del buen hacer experimentando en sus últimos trabajos, y aun encontrando aquí algunos trallazos de interés, bajan el listón.
| 1 | Dreamer 3:23 | |
| 2 | Crime 1:55 | |
| 3 | Ridin’ On 3:08 | |
| 4 | Lion’s Den 3:34 | |
| 5 | Patterns 4:45 | |
| 6 | Violate 4:28 | |
| 7 | Hit the Ground 3:00 | |
| 8 | Devil Music 1:14 | |
| 9 | Gun 3:52 | |
| 10 | Fire 4:41 |