Tres Cabrones

[Fureon Nectarmoon]

Goatload of awesomeness.
Love it.
New songs were totally worth the wait and sounded not quite as I expected (and that's great!).
The acoustic ending part of Dogs reminded me of Kyuss for some reason. Great stuff.
I Told You I Was Crazy is just... crazy. Good crazy. Great crazy. Gréazy.
I was surprised to hear the old songs remixed, too.
And old songs, of course, are just as awesome as they were.
And it all comes together nicely.
Yes. Tres Cabrones is one heck of an album.

[John Schuller]

Perfect Melvins album.

[Bigval]

Where is everyone hearing this album yet, I thought it didn't come out until next month?

[Helen83]

I assume that pitchfork link.

[rimb]

I assume that pitchfork link.

That and the fact that it leaked over a week ago.

[Fureon Nectarmoon]

Where is everyone hearing this album yet, I thought it didn't come out until next month?

http://pitchfork.com/advance/271-tres-cabrones/

Here, an official stream.
I never listen to leaks as a matter of principle.

[Bigval]

Where is everyone hearing this album yet, I thought it didn't come out until next month?

http://pitchfork.com/advance/271-tres-cabrones/

Here, an official stream.
I never listen to leaks as a matter of principle.

Awesome thanks! 

[jules]

The Japanese release of Tres Cabrones will be available from around Nov 6th from the usual places, for those who so desire:

http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=DYMC-7024#

[John Schuller]

Cannot stop listening to this album.

[The Bloated Pope]

Dogs and Cattle prods is phenomenal 

[black stallion]

Cannot stop listening to this album.

its a great album. the production is excellent

[Uncle Fester]

Indeed. I am loving Tres Cabrones. Mike Dillard holds it down on the drum kit. This is some of the most creative songwriting I have heard from the band.  I have listened to this about 4 or 5 times now... keeps getting better with every listen. It's the type of  quirky/weird sense of humor present on this album that I enjoy most. Haven't had something like this since.... what.. Prick?

[the bloat]

Buzz's guitar is back! It's been tucked between his legs since (A) Senile Animal. It's great to hear that riffage again.

[Uncle Fester]

Buzz's guitar is back! It's been tucked between his legs since (A) Senile Animal. It's great to hear that riffage again.

the last number of albums have been very focused on drumming, save freak puke. It's nice that this one is more focused on the Guitar and the dynamics of songwriting. Haven't heard buzz play an acoustic before either, besides on the bootlicker.

[jules]

Review from NME yesterday:
http://www.nme.com/reviews/melvins/14921

Toasting 30 years of surliness this year, the line-up of Pacific Northwestern sludge-rock absurdists the Melvins has rarely been fixed: if it's founder member Buzz Osborne plus two grannies on drums, the Melvins it remains. The hook for 'Tres Cabrones' is the return of Mike Dillard, the band's drummer in their embryonic teenage days who later backed Kurt Cobain in pre-Nirvana band Fecal Matter. The initial feeling that this album is destined to be one of their many jokey, disposable ventures dissipates slightly as Osborne's near-peerless ability with a brain-alteringly great riff takes hold ('Stump Farmer' and 'Walter's Lips' excel here). Still, the Melvins have made so many better albums that it would be scandalous to recommend this one.





Review from The Skinny:
http://www.theskinny.co.uk/music/records/305939-melvins_tres_cabrones

Despite growling their way into middle age, the Melvins never really seemed the sort of band who'd bother to grow up. The snickering nastiness of their metal-soaked hardcore always felt too gloriously delinquent to age truly gracefully, and indeed album number nineteen sees them reaching back into their past. The return of founding drummer Mike Dillard sees long-term sticksman Dale Crover switching to bass ("As close as we're willing to get to the 1980s lineup," explains Buzz Osbourne helpfully), and the results are raucously wonderful.

The Black Flag rage and sludgy riffs of Dr. Mule put us in familiar territory, arching sinister smiles around tightly-gritted teeth, while Stick 'Em Up, Bitch conjures up images of Lemmy staring down the barrel of a nail gun.  Just for laffs, there's also a handful of truly terrifying campfire singalongs – old fellas they may be, but the Melvins' capacity for demented glee remains happily undimmed. [Will Fitzpatrick]