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King Buzzo
This Machine Kills Artists

[ Ipecac / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 27 June 2014

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Melvins front man Buzz Osborne releases solo, acoustic album. What started as a trio of kids making their own weird noise grew into the Melvins, a sludge-rock outfit that helped usher in the grunge era and influenced countless bands to come, including Mudhoney and Nirvana.

For more than three decades, Buzz Osborne and bassist-drummer Dale Crover have been the only consistent members, experimenting with their music as well as their bandmates along the way: two drummers here, a standup bassist there, the return of a founding member who's been gone for 29 years.

King Buzzo: "My main goal was to not fall prey to what happens to most rock people who do this," he said from his home in Los Angeles. "They often end up sounding like a half-assed version of Woody Guthrie or a half-assed version of James Taylor. That's not what I wanted."

"You gotta understand, I wrote a lot of this stuff on acoustic guitar anyway," he said. "I've certainly written a lot of songs [acoustically] that were then translated into the full band.

Tracks:

Dark Brown Teeth
Rough Democracy
Laid Back Walking
Drunken Baby
Vaulting over a Microphone
New River
The Vulgar Joke
Everything's Easy for You
The Ripping Driving
How I Became Offensive
Instrument of God
The Spoiled Brat
Illegal Mona
Good and Hostile
The Blithering Idiot
Useless King of the Punks
The Hesitation Twist