The Giant's Fall - The Giants Fall (FYC Records)
An instrumental album, that serves as a soundtrack to a story that you have to create in your own mind as you listen. The Giant's Fall is an album from Mikebass (ex-Lucky Funeral, Bone to Rust) who recorded the album by himself in Crete to bring together a record of mostly instrumental, drone/doom with a huge psychedelic edge that means that these offerings are elongated numbers that rely on atmosphere and emotion rather than focused songwriting, these songs given time to build and swell with doom and stoner influences looming large.
Based on the giant Talos from Greek mythology it's conceptual and impressive the songs evolving as you listen to them as the ominous Dark Inside leads into the bass heavy The End Of Talos, the sludge synths of the title track featuring an MLK's "Radical Revolution Of Values" speech over the top of the music. An audio journey open to interpretation climaxing with Hades Calling an outro that has a finality to it. An intriguing debut that will draw you in to make of it what you will. 7/10
Drunk Motherfuckers - Dead End EP (FYC Records)
Dead End is the first electric EP from Nikolaos Spanakis' (Dødsferd) Southern/stoner riff rock band Drunk Motherfuckers. Released through his own Fuck Your Creation Records Label, Dead End is a short intro to what Drunk MF's are capable of with Nick (as Father W.) taking just the vocals, which are totally different to his primal shrieks in his primary band.
Drunk MF's debut moves into the stoner scene well, four tracks of psychy, heavy rocking, with a soupiness of grunge. The guitars of Andrew and Wee locking in with the drums of Mavrikos Skarakis for some Clutch/Monster Magnet grooves on Hating Myself, while Seven Livers Wish is slower and languishes in the desert rock sound of Kyuss. These four tracks prove once again Nick is more than a single genre performer, Drunk MF's my favourite of his projects so far. 8/10
Drunk Motherfuckers - The Drunk Sessions (FYC Records)
The Drunk Sessions is the second record from Drunk MF'S and it features the self released Drunk & Wasted acoustic EP from 2009 along with one new track that has so far been unreleased. Starting with the Drunk & Wasted and it's a more laidback sound than their riffy EP, the candlelight burning as Father W. weaves his alcoholic poetry Begrimer and The Great Wise S. the guitarists here. If you remember those MTV Unplugged albums then this will have that feel, their own songs dark, moody and driven by alcohol and regret, the overarching influence being Alice In Chains.
No wonder then why they cover Would as the closer to this 2009 recording. The additional track So Fucking Drunk features Manos G. on everything except acoustic guitar and vocals and it's an ode to being wasted, recorded while both men were totally wasted. Essentially a prequel to the Dead End EP, this is what Drunk MF'S was born out of and even in the acoustic format you know you're on to a winner. 7/10
Mr Trickster - Teach Me How The Real World Isn't (Self Released)
Proggy, grungy and with alt rock edginess, Greeks Mr Trickster want to be Faith No More, like they'd love nothing more than to be Faith No More. One listen to Land Of Tomorrow and you''l have to agree, it's a little like listening to one of those 100's of bands that a group like Faith No More would spawn, although 30 years later.
Using progressive/jazz time signatures, Mr Trickster's music is more than your standard alt rock fayre but I can's shake the Faith No More comparisons and if ever there was band you are almost impossible to truly emulate it's one that comes from the brain of Mike Patton, that said final song River makes me think of Muse. I'm not saying Teach Me How The Real World Isn't a good EP, but it's just so similar to FNM that I found it difficult to think about anything other than, i wanted to listen to FNM. 6/10
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