Artist: Them Crooked Vultures
Album: Them Crooked Vultures
Label: DGC
Genre: Rock
Comments: I love you, Josh Homme. Everything you touch is golden. Queens of the Stone Age is an awesome band, but your side project, Eagles of Death Metal (co-founded with Jesse "The Devil" Hughes aka Boots Electric; you yourself are sometimes known as Baby Duck) is stuff dreams are made of (Homme described it as "bluegrass slide guitar mixed with stripper drum beats and Canned Heat vocals"). Thus, expectations were extraordinarily high when we found out about your newest endeavor.
Them Crooked Vultures is another glorious side project, this time seeing Homme strut his stuff with Dave Grohl and John Paul Jones (former Led Zeppelin bassist!!), making it the actual definition of a super-group. And remarkably, the self-titled album performs. Some tracks are bluesy, some are more electric, but all of them are accompanied by excellent instrumentation, pulsating and perpetual and sometimes furious rhythms, and Homme's standard croon. . The album is ridiculously fun--it's a loud, thunderous, sometimes eerie hard-rock boogie that's as catchy as you would expect; a raw, dense and heavy, slightly-dirty dive-bar spectacle (one can only imagine the live shows). Start with tracks 2, 3 (lead single "New Fang"), 6, 8, 10, etc. And good luck listening to any track, let alone the entire album, only once.
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