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Jul 21, 2021Like Endless Boogie, Birds of Maya knows how to wring every sweaty drop out of a heavy groove. The basic foundation, thunderous drums, a gut-checking oscillation of bass notes, picks up various other elements as it goes on — mumbled spoken word, eruptive guitar solos, flailing drum fills. It is always the same but always changing, and you can get lost in it.
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Jul 1, 2021This is a readymade soundtrack for humidity-choked summer nights spent getting up to no good and going crazy from the heat.
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Jun 30, 2021Things crunch, grunt, and whinny with much effort and abandon, the band’s gurning labours hitting a sweet spot somewhere between Mudhoney and The Groundhogs. Occasionally they stretch so far for Earthless-like levels of jam band transcendence that you might be able to hear their vertebrae pop – were it not, of course, all so frighteningly loud.
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Jun 29, 2021This is not a record for people who like their noise rock packaged nicely or for those who need a melody or song structure; it's for people whose idea of the best thing to do on a Friday night is being locked in a basement with three sweaty rockers bashing out songs with all the fiery energy and unschooled enthusiasm of their heroes.
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MojoJun 29, 2021Magnificently unsanitised ramalams in the shape of Please Come In and BFIOU. [Aug 2021, p.88]
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The WireJun 29, 2021Dirty and invigorating? Yes. [Jul 2021, p.67]
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UncutJun 29, 2021Flitting between Black Sab homages such as “Busted Room” and the Zep-esque quasi-Middle Eastern “Recessinater”, and shorter rockers such as the Stooges-like “Front Street” and “BFIOU”, which opens with the riff from the Beasties’ “Sabotage” before exploring even scuzzier directions. [Jul 2021, p.24]