Pawnshop - Cruise O Matic

Rock'n'roll!!!!! Raw and dirty… as I prefer! It's the first time that I listened to a Pawnshop record (yes… I've missed Aloha From Saturn and still haven't heard it… I'm sorry…) and I'm really amazed listening to their powerful rock'n'roll aggression. The album is not very original, but it sounds really good and run fast from the first track to the last one. The opening songs Blissed Out / Mean Machine / Las Vegas are really three kickin' ass episodes based on incisive guitar riffs, catchy chorus (listen to Mean Machine!) and wonderful distortions, simply the perfect example of how have to sound a stoner'n'roll album and of how sound the whole work of the band! Somewhere the phantom of Kyuss appear as a warm light, for example in the good Thailand or in the tripping Living Zombie (the slowest and more psychedelic track of the CD, that grow until the furious ending part), but this would be just a compliment to the band, that revisit the magic of the stoner fathers with great results. The dusty sound of the title track than take a look back to the seventies, smelling of diesel and smoke. A great work! One of the best Beard Of Stars production, suggested to all the rock'n'roll maniacs and to the Kyuss fanatics.

Blissed Out
Mean Machine
Las Vegas
Space Cadillacs
Coma Cluster
Thailand
Baby Bitch
Cruise 'o' Matic
Year of Pleasure
Living Zombie

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