Release
date: August
17th
2018. Label: Self
Released.
Format: CD/DD
Smooth
Orbit –
Tracklisting
Sample
Of A Sample
Not
As Hung
Breach
Meat
Wagon
Fuck
Up
Hotbox
Airlock
Cat
March
Vanishing
Point
Pulling
Teeth
Lost In The Sauce
Lost In The Sauce
Members
Mike
Owen - Guitar and Vocals
Rob
Wagoner - Bass and Vocals
Del
Toro - Drums
Review
Spacetrucker
new album Smooth Orbit is a highly confident mix of Spaced Out Stoner
Metal with elements of Fuzz Rock, Desert Rock and good old fashioned
Psychedelic Rock. The album is quite adventurous in how the band
delivers their music and vocals with a heavy progressive edge
Opening
track - Sample Of A Sample - is almost eight minutes of heavy
psychedelic rock until a vintage Kyuss sounding guitar riff changes
the entire tone and atmosphere of the song. The vocals can be quite
boisterous at first but that soon settles down when the vocals adapt
a more classic Desert/Stoner Rock sound. Even though the music is
quite flashy and OTT at times this allows Spacetrucker to show people
who is BOSS and they hold your attention throughout the album. There
are some heavy screeching guitars that even put myself out of my
comfort zone as the mood can be very doomy and sludgy at times.
Second
song - Not As Hung
- has a more punk and streetwise sound with the spiky lyrics showing
a different side to Spacetrucker. The familiar Spaced
Out/Desert/Stoner Rock sounds are still there but at least
Spacetrucker are not afraid to change things even on the early stages
of the album.
Third
track - Breach is a heavy instrumental song that has a thumping bass
line and an almost seedy atmosphere.
Fourth
song - Meat Wagon - is one of my favourite songs on the album as it
opens with a blues rock riff before adding traces of wicked doom
sounds and then the murky Stoner riffs fully takeover. The song has a
more nineties alt-rock/grunge feel compared to the other songs on the
album.
The
remainder of the album sees Spacetrucker creating different sounds on
the other songs held on the album. With songs: Hotbox Airlock, Cat
March, Vanishing Point Science and the ten minute plus epic - Lost In
The Sauce being the ones that offer the most exciting and heaviest
riffs on the album.
Spacetrucker
include a mixture of long and short songs on the album and they
perhaps impress the most on the longer tracks. As they have more time
to play around with. The shorter songs have a more direct sound
mainly due to the short timescales that are involved. When the band
weave their psychedelic magic on Hotbox Airlock, Pulling Teeth and
Lost In The Sauce then it's hard not to be impressed by the
Psychedelic craziness of it all.
The
album has a very adventurous spirit and Spacetrucker do indeed take
you on a trippy spaced out journey. The production has a vintage raw
sound and that's perhaps how Spacetrucker want to be heard on the
album. Smooth Orbit is an album that could have been released anytime
over the last thirty years and still be considered a great modern
sounding album. Smooth Orbit has a timeless feel to it and this is an
album that will see Spacetrucker's stock rise within Stoner
Rock/Metal scene.
Excellent
and Highly Recommended.
Words
by Steve Howe
Thanks
to Curtis at Dewar PR for the promo. Smooth Orbit will be released on
CD/DD from August 17th
2018.
To
get you into the mood for the album, you can hear this exclusive song
premiere of HOTBOX AIRLOCK.
