KING BUZZO - THIS MACHINE KILLS ARTISTS 

- Gatefold 

 

LEGENDARY MELVINS FRONT MAN BUZZ OSBORNE RELEASES SOLO, ACOUSTIC FULL-LENGTH 

 

What started as a trio of kids making their own weird noise grew into the Melvins, a sludge-rock outfit that helped usher in the grunge era and influenced countless bands to come, including Mudhoney and Nirvana. For more than three decades, Buzz Osborne and bassist-drummer Dale Crover have been the only consistent members, experimenting with their music as well as their bandmates along the way: two drummers here, a standup bassist there, the return of a founding member who's been gone for 29 years. King Buzzo: "My main goal was to not fall prey to what happens to most rock people who do this," he said from his home in Los Angeles. "They often end up sounding like a half-assed version of Woody Guthrie or a half-assed version of James Taylor. That's not what I wanted." "You gotta understand, I wrote a lot of this stuff on acoustic guitar anyway," he said. "I've certainly written a lot of songs [acoustically] that were then translated into the full band. 

 

TRACKLISTING:  01. DARK BROWN TEETH 02. ROUGH DEMOCRACY 03. LAID BACK WALKING 04. DRUNKEN BABY 05. VAULTING OVER A MICROPHONE 06. NEW RIVER 07. THE VULGAR JOKE 08. EVERYTHING'S EASY FOR YOU 09. THE RIPPING DRIVING 10. HOW I BECAME OFFENSIVE 11. INSTRUMENT OF GOD 12. THE SPOILED BRAT 13. ILLEGAL MONA 14. GOOD AND HOSTILE 15. THE BLITHERING IDIOT 16. USELESS KING OF THE PUNKS 17. THE HESITATION TWIST