Valdez
by Birds of Maya
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  1. MusicNerdViking
    Jul 12, 2021
    4
    While it is well-performed in some aspects, most of it feels very bland, uninspired, and boring. A few of the longest songs lack anything interesting to make the listener stick to the end, and it is a recurring problem throughout the entire thing. The vocals sound trash, almost as if the vocalist is phoning it in so he could go home. Now when I think about it, everyone on the album soundsWhile it is well-performed in some aspects, most of it feels very bland, uninspired, and boring. A few of the longest songs lack anything interesting to make the listener stick to the end, and it is a recurring problem throughout the entire thing. The vocals sound trash, almost as if the vocalist is phoning it in so he could go home. Now when I think about it, everyone on the album sounds like they're phoning it! Musically, they sound like a covers band, but whenever they try to perform a Deep Purple song, they forget halfway and proceed to improvise, so they don't look bad. This album sounds like they ran out of space on the tapes, and so the producer just decided to repeat a certain section of a song for 4-9 minutes and repeat the same process with all of the other songs. To put it bluntly, this is just a blend of Black Sabbath and Deep Purple but painfully watered-down to the point where they sound generic in terms of the psychedelic rock genre, with the most clueless composers known to man in charge of the album. Basic, uninspired, and bland are the words to describe this.… Expand

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82

Universal acclaim - based on 7 Critic Reviews

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  1. Dusted Magazine
    Jul 21, 2021
    80
    Like 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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  2. Pitchfork
    Jul 1, 2021
    80
    This 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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  3. The Quietus
    Jun 30, 2021
    80
    Things 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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