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Generous
Maria - Crawl Back In
Review by: kokojones (StonerRock.com)
2004 Gogo Mojo/Generous Maria self release (GM001)
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Goddamn those Swedes! Always one up on the rest of the pack, and this stuff is
gonna send most of 'em back to school.
“Crawl Back In” centers around a chuggy southern riff, peppered by Generous
Maria’s hauntingly twisted vocal melodies and a splash of some Entombed
blackened juju hot sauce. The song moves effortlessly into more majestic,
atypical chord changes and keeps you guessing at what’s around the next bend
without losing the listener at all. They’re not as prog as Mammoth Volume, and
not as blunt as the Hellacopters. Generous Maria manage to write simple songs
that aren‘t predictable, with epic changes and production that are perfectly
layered for that psychadelic odyssey without being overdone.
“Daddy Rattlesnake” is a no bullshit drugged rock anthem, blasting straight
into orbit with more of their patented vocal lines that make me wonder what
Lenny Kravitz would sound like had discovered Fu Manchu’s The Action Is Go
in the six months prior to recording Mama Said.
Hearing this made me dig out their debut, Command of the New Rock, for repeated
spins. These guys are cooking up something sick in the near future and I’m all
over it.
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