Bride Screamed Murder reviews

[Leroy]

Has Rollingstone ever even reviewed a Melvins album?


(Insert Melvins fanboy response here)

[deatheats]

No, but the BBC has:

BBC Review
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[jonE5]

No, but the BBC has:

BBC Review
"They

[>>>JZS<<<]

No, but the BBC has:

BBC Review
"They

[Dubwise Ministry Juan]

This review from The Skinny sums up my feelings on the album pretty much....

http://www.theskinny.co.uk/article/99304-melvins---the-bride-screamed-murder

3 Stars Out Of 5

With 18 studio albums, half a dozen EPs, seven live albums and literally scores of other odds and ends scattered across the musical landscape, for Melvins the act of releasing a record might well be as numbingly routine as loveless, over-familiar sex with a partner whose benign expressions you now gently despise.

For better or worse, Buzzo and Dale have rediscovered their mischievous side with some chain-gang vocals on opener The Water Glass and an idiosyncratic rendition of The Who's My Generation. Yet despite packing a couple of belters in Evil New War God and Pig House there's an unmistakeable sense of Bride... running in third gear for much of its 45 minutes.

What would be a great record by most other bands' standards looks anaemic in comparison to much of that brilliant back catalogue amassed over the past 25 years. Then again, that's a hell of a lot longer than most marriages. [Austin Tasseltine]

[black stallion]

Melvins- The Bride Screamed Murder ALBUM REVIEW

 

[norecess]

you think he talks like that to everyone?

[Dubwise Ministry Juan]

Melvins- The Bride Screamed Murder ALBUM REVIEW

 

Isn't that Buick?

[danimal]

I've been busy the past few days publicizing The Melvins.  I wrote all of these,  so some themes and pics overlap.

general melvins news:

http://www.chunklet.com

album review:

http://www.comfortcomes.com/2010/06/03/melvins-the-bride-screamed-murder/

this is my personal website.  it's supposed to be about comics, but i can put whatever i want, so:

http://youdontlookhip.blogspot.com/

[gesundheit]

Awesome stuff, thanks for posting

[Senior Chiffon]

http://www.chimpomatic.com/reviews/20333/melvins-the-bride-screamed-murder/

[(((O)))]

http://www.chimpomatic.com/reviews/20333/melvins-the-bride-screamed-murder/

Call me a naysayer but i actually agree alot with this review, although i wouldn't rate it a 2/5 kinda record.

[duratop]

Pitchfork gave the a album a 5.2 - http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14313-the-bride-screamed-murder/

Of course, they also awarded Chicken Switch a 7.8. ..

[Dubwise Ministry Juan]

http://www.chimpomatic.com/reviews/20333/melvins-the-bride-screamed-murder/

Call me a naysayer but i actually agree alot with this review, although i wouldn't rate it a 2/5 kinda record.

Totally agree with that review apart from Evil New War God...........sorry but I just don't rate the song......also I rate the album as a 3 out of 5.

Here's the above review for the lazy folk here............


 This is the first proper Melvins release for two years and the third to feature Jarred Warren and Coady Willis from Big Business. The two preceding albums (Senile Animal, Nude With Boots) were chock full of twin-drummer assaults and memorable tracks that somehow combined the best of the Melvins sound with that of Big Business. This new release has its moments, but ultimately fails to satisfy.

Speaking as a total fan-boy, I can't say I'm not disappointed. I've travelled more miles to see this band play live than any other. I've always loved the new ideas that come with shifting line-ups, and lived with this new release for a month before posting my review, but I can't get over the fact that this album is (at best) hotch-potch, and at worst, weak.

It's certainly diverse - the opening track The Water Glass is a rallying cry for the Melvins massive - all military cadence drumming and boot-camp chanting. OK, a bit baffling, but perhaps it'll work live. Things suddenly look up with track 2 - Evil New War God. This is the best track on the album - classic Melvins chunk winding into a doomy synth assisted riff during it's outro. Great stuff, but from here on in, the pickings get much slimmer. Pig House starts out promisingly enough but ends up in a rock-bolero - that most hackneyed and corny device. Even if it's meant to be ironic, it still sounds cheesy.

I'll Finish You Off is next - and to my ears it sounds just like a Big Business track. I'm not hearing much Buzz and Dale in there. Electric Flower follows and this could be said to be the other highlight of the album. Hospital Up comes next, which sounds like a track that might have been left off Nude With Boots - it starts well but dissolves into two minutes of faux-jazz fucking around. The joke wears thin after about 20 seconds. Inhumanity And Death is a bit incoherent - a stitch-together of left-over riffs, or orphans that don't really get along with each other. Then we get an 8 minute version of The Who's My Generation played as a sloppy bar blues. Once again, the irony is lost on me - it's just boring. The Melvins have done some awesome cover versions over the years (White Punks On Dope, Promise Me) but this doesn't come up to scratch.

The album winds down with PG x 3 - a folksy tone-poem played through three times - on melodica, a-capella, and on fuzz guitar. It ends with a child's voice counting numbers and looping on the number 4. I quite like this, but it's not exactly Steve Reich. Perhaps that repeated number 4 is reminding us that there are four people in the Melvins, each with equal input. Perhaps - but I'm not sure if this serves as a declaration or a disclaimer.

[(((O)))]

a 3 out of 5

Yeah that sounds about right upon the Melvins scale for albums but in relation to most OTHER music out there its probably more like a 4 or 4.5/5! As for Evil New War God, i'd argue that it's one of the best recent songs they've done to these ears!! Definitely the best on the record.