Release
date: September 06th
2019. Label: Sapien
Records.
Format: CD/DD/Vinyl
Take
Me To The Nasties
– Tracklisting
1.Take
Me To The Nasties
2.SOS
3.Been
Expecting You
4.Release
The Clowns
5.Phantom
Head
6.Danger
Mouth
7.Shakamoto's
Revenge
8.Lantern
9.Denim
Casket
10.Everything
Is Blue
Members
J
- G/V
A
- B/V
N
- D
Review
Take
Me To The Nasties is the highly anticipated debut album from UK
Desert Rock/Stoner Metallers – DUNES – who are from Newcastle
Upon Tyne. Which is coincidently my home town. So I was super excited
to hear and review this album and the guys don’t disappoint at all.
Taking influence from bands such as Clutch, Red Fang, QOTSA and
Torche. DUNES have all the bases covered with their highly infectious
blend of Desert Rock and Stoner Metal that has a vintage Punk Rock
sound holding everything together.
The
album flies out of the hurdle with the first two songs – Take Me To
The Nasties and SOS. Both tracks show that DUNES play their own style
of Desert/Stoner Rock with a rough and ready attitude. The band take
the street credibility of early QOTSA with the hard rocking
aggression of Red Fang. The vocals and lyrics are very much in your
face and allow DUNES to have a no holds barred approach to their
music. There are some cool sounding Psychedelic Rock vibes played on
SOS and makes the album even more addictive.
Third
song – Been Expecting You – has a classic QOTSA feel to it again
with the jagged edge Stoner Rock riffs building upto a confident
rhythm. DUNES show a real creative flair for writing music that gets
straight down to the point of ROCKING OUT.
Take
Me To The Nasties overall production is quite raw from the start and
it’s quite good for the most part of the album. There’s a couple
of rough moments on the later stages of the song but nothing major to
complain about.
Fourth
song – Release The Clowns – is where DUNES finally bring a more
thunderous Stoner Metal groove to their overall sound and this
perhaps one of the best songs on the album. The song is quite intense
in places and has an unforgiving nature with it’s Red Fang style
delivery. Though this is still DUNES show and they prove they know
how to write a loud and mean Stoner Metal song.
Other
standout songs on the album include – Phantom Head, Danger Mouth,
Shakamoto’s Revenge and Denim Casket – with DUNES employing a
more rigid style of music that opens the album to echoes of Doom
Metal and even Drone Rock in places.
Take
Me To The Nasties is the type of album that you wish QOTSA would
still make today before they left the Stoner Rock/Metal world behind.
This is one of the most exciting and fast-paced Stoner Rock/Metal
albums you’ll likely to hear this year.
DUNES
have proved their worth already on this debut album and I can only
see great things happening to this band over the next 12 to 18
months. My advice is to get with the program and check DUNES out now.
You
won’t be sorry…..
Words
by Steve Howe
Thanks
to David
at Sapien
Records
for the promo. Take
Me To The Nasties
will be available to buy on CD/DD/Vinyl via Sapien Records
Psych Sounds from September 06th
2019.
Check out the new video for the excellent new song SOS from their upcoming new album.
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