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Jul 29, 2016The best bits are when the band’s own drummer Dale Crover picks up the bass for a third of the album’s 12 tracks.
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Jun 27, 2016Basses Loaded is something of a mixed bag. Some of it works, some of it doesn’t and some of it is just a little bit too silly for its own good. As usual though, the good far out-weighs the bad, and the Pinkus and McDonald and Warren contributions make it worth a look.
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Jun 20, 2016A Melvins selection box of sorts, Basses Loaded is packed with delights.
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Jun 16, 2016A good, if standard, Melvins album.
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Jun 7, 2016There’s much that rocks here, and rocks deep on this four-string feast with multiple dishes.
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Jun 6, 2016Basses Loaded is excellent. Like every other Melvins record it holds its own identity while oozing the same sweet black guitar sludge they have re-perfected many times over the years.
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Jun 3, 2016Yet, with all these contrasting angles and despite the roadhouse crew bringing up the lower end, the album flies by breezily. Although the band has legion of dispatched formers bassists in their wake, it appears the band does play well with others. And not only that, they know how to use “others“ to great potential.
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Jun 3, 2016The Melvins are prolific without taking heed of their stature or prominence, and Basses Loaded is a testament to their nonchalant and fiercely inventive place in the world of loud and angry music.
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Q MagazineJun 2, 2016Catching the eye more than the ear, the rickety Maybe I Am Amused features Nirvana's Krist Novoselic. Meatier stuff surfaces on the quintessentially sludgy War Pussy, while I Want To Tell You thrillingly imagines Osborne's heroes, Kiss, covering The Beatles in hypermelodic proto-psych mode. [Jul 2016, p.111]
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UncutJun 2, 2016It's much less obstreperous than most of their earlier works. [Jul 2016, p.76]
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Jun 2, 2016Undoubtedly solid, diverse and finding well good use of its plethora of bass players and its loveable, nutty front man, Melvins deliver yet another solid release.