Leírás
Psychedelic Hard Rock, Stoner Rock, Rock’n’Roll, Grunge, Rawk, 2010-es album.
Limited edition CD kiadvány, 2019-es újra nyomás.
So, with a name like All Time High and coming from the Small Stone stable I was expecting a bunch of pot-bellied, heavily bearded backwoods throwbacks raping the shit out of a bunch of Big Muff pedals and extolling the virtues of pretty much any form of intoxication…whether that be a bong full of Mary Jane, a barrel load of fermented hops, auto erotic asphyxiation or burnt pigeon shit smoked off a shoe polish tin lid. This sounded like a band with an eye on a party and a whole lot of noise. It seems my expectations have, once again been confounded by those pesky Small Stoners. There are two things that you notice immediately; one, they’re from Seattle and two; the album cover resembles some sort of chill out style trance compilation. Holy Shit Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Fuzzville anymore!!!!
The Seattle thing is easily the most significant thing about All Time High. The various members have all served their time in various bands around the rainy city in their past and are acutely aware of the musical heritage of the region…I think we all know that I’m referring to the grunge boom of the late 1980’s/early 1990’s. That’s not to say these guys are a bunch of dour, plaid clad downbeats recycling Sabbath riffs. You won’t hear a trace of Soundgarden or Alice in Chains style frowny metal here or even Mudhoney‘s lysergic garage fuzz. Nor will you hear The Melvin‘s elephantine crawl. The ghost of Mr Cobain does loom large over much of the proceedings here, however, particularly in the vocal stylings of Adrian Makins whose raspy grasp of melody betrays a keen slacker sense of what makes a great pop song.
All Time High, however, don’t plummet the depths of noisy, double barrel sucking angst that Nirvana seemed to wallow in, rather they have taken the keen pop suss of that band and thrown it in with a whole load of other influences to create a fantastic soundtrack to a lazy summer. It may not be stoner rock in the accepted sense but it sure as hell is stoner rock as West Coast psychedelia rubs shoulders with fuzzy 70’s rock riffs and tips it’s hat to punked up Soul Asylum style Americana.. All Time High may be respectful of their North Western heritage but they’re certainly not chained to it.
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Felállás :
Adrian Makins: (guitar, vocals)
Steb Brown: (bass)
Sam Williams: (guitar)
Matt Vandenberghe: (drums)
vendég zenészek :
Van Conner (sings backup vox on „Rule of Thirds”, „Land of the Free” and „No Mind”)
Jack Endino (sings backup vox on „Twistin’ the Knife Away”, „New Urge” and „Already Gone”)
