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Stinking Lizaveta | III

Boring riffs and sloppy production.
CD, Tolotta/Konkurrent

Tekst: Bas Ickenroth

Publicatiedatum: 15 maart 2002

When a band has a deal with the record label owned by Joe Lally, of Fugazi, and their debut album has been produced by Steve Albini, one can have some fairly high expectations about the band's quality.
The band in question is Stinking Lizaveta, a Philadelphia-based instrumental rock outfit, and they do not live up to the expectations. 'III' is their third album, as you might have guessed, and the foundation of the music lies deeply in heavy and bluesy stonerrock guitarriffs. That would have been alright if the riffs were interesting (see Karma To Burn), but the endless process of putting riff after riff doesn't work if the riff itself is boring. Only a few tracks escape this trap by putting more melody and variety into the structure. It is in these tracks one can hear that Stinking Lizaveta isn't talentless, but three good songs in-between nine bad-to-mediocre ones doesn't make the balance swing to the right side. The sloppy production - especially in the drum mix - is not helping, either. Save your money for something better than this, is my advice.

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