champion at taking a very simple blues idea and jaggering it and stomping on it with every instrument ever until it becomes a whole dose of something else. bit too big but decently fun enough to keep me distracted. also the vocals completely rule here how dare jagger serve that much cunt
the fact that this predates other pigfuck trailblazers like jesus lizard and oxbow is genuinely insane to me. this feels like carefully planned absurdism and unhinged cocaine-fuelled instrument abuse at the same time. gibby haynes does so many goddamn jello biafra impressions on this album and they're all hilarious. when he's not doing that he's screaming off his ass because hitting notes for an entire song is genuinely too hard. it reads like hardcore punk parody but in reality ... read more
saved by the fact that kirks raspy airy voice means hes forced to take a more measured approach. at least now hes singing about rotting and dying instead of how crowbar is actually dedicated to the almighty or something. can't believe i'm pleased with it on the basis of it actually sounding like a crowbar album.
how did kirk get so bad at writing songs and lyrics dawg i'm beginning to understand why people think equilibrium is an underrated gem and why the debut actually kicks ass. fuck my life this is draining my will (reference)