MELVINS - Houdini LP Sweater A tangle of trippy guitar

A tangle of trippy guitar riffs punctuate stellar soundscapes like stars in the night sky

Turning a gimlet eye to the American Primitive guitar style

reminding us of the radical potential of healing and love

Cannell & Wright nod to the sort of heterophonic improvisation found in Psalms from the Isles of Lewis (as heard on those amazing Arc Light Editions volumes)

MELVINS - Houdini LP Sweater A tangle of trippy guitarThe iconic fifth album Houdini by the Melvins captures the band's power, vision, and musical strangeness. It's an essential '90s release, combining elements of grunge with hard rock and sludge metal. Their biggest commercially success and first major label release is an album where they displaying the full width of their musical abilities. Buzz Osbourne's guitar sound is deep and heavy and combined with Dale Crover's powerful drum rolls and fills it