I love Meadows and I love Slabdragger but as with every split release there is one band that seems to have the the added popularity or overshadows the other involved party, and in this case Slabdragger definitely are that band.
THAT RIFF shall be going round and round my head for weeks and from the very beginning i am hooked, the song ‘Alchemistress’ is the most psychotically trippy thing i have heard in ages and THANK FUCK its on Vinyl as you can hear every little note perfectly crystal clear and its that, that makes the atmospherics of this mental piece of work so masterful! Thankfully they don’t hold up and their other offering ‘Burden’ is equally spellbinding, especially the final part of the song which just comes at you like the final frantic few pulls of a particularly nasty wank! The good thing about doing this on a 12″ is that this is a good 30 minutes of music, BUT the boys in Slabdragger are a band that need to get to work quick and give us another album as this is only going to hold back their rabid fans hunger for so long….
As for the Meadows side, they are a very different beast and it really does give you a chance to peel yourself off the ceiling and get down to some good old humour filled sludgy punk… and with lyrics like ‘Hey baby, i live in my car. Eat from your bins, i piss in a jar!’ you know you are in the presence of a band that really don’t give a fuck and are having a damn good time doing so!
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