Purification via Discontent: Slôdder's Sophomore Album Rages Unquietly (Early Album Stream)
Slôdder is about the closest that pure misery can get to being danceable. The Swedish sludge group's new album A Mind Designed to Destroy Beautiful Things contains truckloads of bluesy, shuffling sludge riffs that ooze so seamlessly one might forget we're talking sludge--of course, the rasped, half-audible howls accompanying them are a good reminder. It's a concoction supernaturally exported from the gutters of New Orleans to Slôdder's studio, and the filth is definitely running up the walls in there.
Energetic and alive, this sophomore album hums with jam-honed cohesion that heavily contributes to the listenability and dials up the electrifying sleaze. Whenever a riff throws its weight around, it comes with crashing accompaniment and leaves a mark. In longer jams like "Warpaint" and "Still no Friends," the band ventures into exploratory soundscape-crafting, turning churning riffs into a vehicle for hypnotic coercion, but most of the time we're getting cymbal-wash-packed rock stomps and a few d-beats thrown in to really get the pot boiling. Stream the whole nasty affair here before it drops on Friday.
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The band adds:
It’s more of a cleansing ritual than an album, at least for me. Getting rid of a lot of frustration, anger and weirdness.
Deeply rooted and inspired by the less sunny side of Wermland, Sweden, where we are from. We have gone down a faster path on this one than before. There are d-beat passages and more of a punk-feel over a lot of the material but still Slôdder, so of course it gets slow and heavy as well.
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A Mind Designed To Destroy Beautiful Things releases November 24th via Majestic Mountain Records.
