All right everybody get stoned!

It's Mondo Generator, the latest braintrust of a truly depraved individual who's come under extreme pressure it seems and this is his only way of letting off steam!

Nick Oliveri, you may remember from the early days of bass-beating in Kyuss and recently doing the Queens of the Stone Age thing, and now decides to give it a run on this monster of an album that features what amounts to a number of blunt-ended heavy tunes in the tradition of those aforementioned along with a sudden burst of punk-like aggression-"Uncle Tommy," "Unless I can Kill," The Butthole Surfers-like "Pigman," or a masochistic minute and a half of "I Want you to Die," all of which for sound like they were recorded straight out of my garage out back!

So this is no ordinary stoner-rock saturation but for those who can't get enough, there's still plenty to go around. "Miss Mary Gets a Boob Job" and the all at once dynamic and disturbed extended version of "Simple Exploding Man," have enough kick to it to make you forget… whatever it is you were supposed to remember-a real throwback to the original grunge and grit of the Detroit underground!

And after ten more minutes of this, you'll forget what the hell you began listening to in the first place!

This current project packs more wallop than we're used to hearing from the continuous glut of desert dwelling hipsters, and is a fine mixture of punk and sludge-the bottle and the bill if you will.

Released by Southern Lord Recordings

Review by Vinnie Apicella [va85@columbia.edu]