Inwoods - Slow Season EP (2014)
The Slow Season EP
is the first release from Inwoods, a quartet of guys from Adelaide,
Australia, with a taste for stoner doom. Though there's only six
tracks on the EP, they average about 5+ minutes each, making for a
substantial offering of slow, low, and doom-soaked tunes. From the
opening title track onwards, the bass hums and rumbles, the drums
sound monstrous, and the guitar sizzles along in its down-tuned ways.
The vocalist takes his cues from the less sludgy side of stoner
doom, opting for a voice with more harmony than growling and
shouting, and all the instrumental elements come together around him
for a sticky blend of aggression and groove.
At the
same time, they lace in some grungy style, snapping in a crunchy
guitar tear here, a riff that sounds like acid-washed and
sludge-soaked Nirvana or Stone Temple Pilots there, and
quiet-loud-quiet-loud song arrangement on a couple of the tracks. To
paraphrase the band themselves, they really do sound like something
familiar but new, and that something sounds pretty good. Even
better, like the best grunge bands, they have a good sense of humor
about things (possibly best-reflected in the raucous “Van Song”,
which blasts along while urging people to just “get in the van,
baby!”). Here's hoping they keep on keeping on, and share more of
that fun with the rest of us.
~
Gabriel
For
Fans Of; Moon Curse, Celophys, Alice In Chains, Valkyrie, Seed
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