Twelve Point Buck Pop Killdozer

having carved out its own particular furrow of death by this point destruction and tongue piercing cheek wall black humor on twelve point buck killdozer didn t so much relax a bit as start to grind the wheels there are some great moments it has to be said but for the most part they re musical ones as the band especially bill hobson start to stretch out in more directions than before at the same time the members can t leave their sound too far behind them and the result sometimes is a compromise when killdozer s on though they re on fire new pants and shirt is actually a brilliant smashing together of huge noise rhythm crunch and psychedelic soloing hobson making his guitar as strung out as possible the immediately following space 1999 is just as incredible gerald s drawling sleaze elvis the queasy stiff funk if there is such a thing of the music a stentorian crawl to the grave butch vig at the very least makes everything sound as huge and crushing as all the band s work has been in the past but perhaps goes too over the top here more variety would have helped in the end gerald sneaks in some sly literary references again at the least flannery o connor is specifically name checked on the horn touched sort of tribute lupus while the inclusion of a snippet of a farm report at one point seems like an all too appropriate touch as for a song about irwin allen films called man vs nature that ruminates on the question of justice in a cold universe and how charlton heston is just a ham well why not in another change meanwhile every song is an original then again the original single only release of for ladies only from the previous year may well have killed their appetite for that at the time