Grinderman - Grinderman
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Artist: GrindermanBrand: GRINDERMAN
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-04-10
Music Label: ANTI-
Soundtracks:
- Get It On
- No Pussy Blues
- Electric Alice
- Grinderman
- Depth Charge Ethel
- Go Tell The Women
- (I Don't Need You To) Set Me Free
- Honey Bee (Lets Fly To Mars)
- Man In The Moon
- When My Love Comes Down
- Love Bomb
Music reviews of Grinderman
Music Review: Savage.
Rating: 4 Stars
Grinderman's self-titled debut album has the rare ability to make spirited gutter punks - both real and fake - feel okay about their socially shunned lifestyles of perceived slackerdom. Whether you're broke, horny, sick, desperate or just plain ol' pissed off at the world, the eleven songs on this Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' side project will make you feel normal. In a way, through it's street smart darkness and rip raw atmospheres, Grinderman might even make social lowlifes feel, well, happy. Isn't that how rock n' roll was originally designed to make us, the nonconforming froth of the world, feel?
For starters, the typical Stooges fan that's going to fall for Grinderman probably isn't much of a fan of The Birthday Party or any of Cave's expansive Goth-themed catalog. While his talent and originality make him both a critical favorite and a cult icon, his brand of sick oddball music has always kept his pale-skinned fanbase at a modest size. Grinderman, on the other hand, is poised to make listeners feel eight feel tall and as hard as Lenny Dykstra, rather than five foot whatever and soft as a stack of tattered bath towels. Goth in a different way than Cave's recent work, Grinderman builds most perceptibly on not just The Birthday Party's later work, but also on some of Tom Waits' darker moments, making them into directly accessible and edgy rock n' roll. It also helps that Grinderman, a group of 50-year-old balding rockers, sound as fresh and youthful as anyone you've ever heard.
How exactly are Cave (vocals, guitar, organ, piano), Warren Ellis (bouzouki, fendocaster, viola, etc.), Martyn Casey (bass, guitar) and Jim Sclavunos (drums) able to pull off 40 minutes of primitive, cool, enriching, youthful rock after years of semi-progressive, overly-pretentious Goth/folk? Well, for one, Cave decided to stop sitting at a desk to write his songs. Rather than e-mailing lyrics and tabs to his Bad Seeds before gathering to rehearse, Cave, Ellis, Casey and Sclavunos convened in a practice space, drank some beers and ripped through Cave's purposefully simple blueprints. The result is not only Cave's best work in years, but also his most collaborative and air guitar-worthy release to date.
Packaged like a gatefold LP to the scale of a CD, Grinderman starts with the anathematic "Get It On," full of perfectly fuzzy and crunchy guitars and lip-curling vocals. Next up is Grinderman's first single, "No Pu**y Blues," a ferocious, hootin' and hollerin' blues rocker complete with one of the most epic rock n' roll climaxes since The Queens of the Stone Age released Songs For the Deaf. As far as Grinderman's lyrical and vocal content go, Cave comes off like a horny, rambunctious, stoned-out rock spirit (again, think Raw Power-era Iggy Pop), ready to arm-wrestle Henry Rollins while shooting up with Alice Cooper.
As easy as it is to describe Grinderman as a dirty album that spits rock bullets, it's actually a quite artful collection of songs, full of inventive twists, turns and sounds. Other highlights include "Go Tell the Women," "Grinderman," "Depth Charge Ethel" and the amazing closer, "Love Bomb." Really though, aside from the sub par "Honey Bee (Let's Fly to Mars)" and "(I Don`t Need You) To Set Me Free," Grinderman is solid straight through, offering a varied mix of fast and slow, arty and straight-ahead.
Grinderman is - similar to Jim Jarmusch's raw beatnik-friendly film, Down By Law - a grimy riff of city-slicking art, told from the perspective of a worldly, street-smart poet capable of making words like "pussy" seem commonplace. If you need a soundtrack for your next appearance as the black sheep at whatever family function lies ahead, Grinderman have you covered with their comfortably acute riffs. Either way, be sure to pack your air guitar. (Greg Locke)
Description of Grinderman
The story of Grinderman begins within the working processes of another band: Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds. At the start of 2004, when Nick Cave took a small team of Bad Seeds members -- violinist Warren Ellis, bassist Martyn Casey and drummer Jim Sclavunos -- off to the tiny Misère studio in Paris for a songwriting session, they effectively established a new band. The small combo configuration of Nick, Warren, Marty and Jim had its public debut in a showcase performance to promote the Bad Seeds Nocturama album; the foursome continued working in this streamlined format, getting together frequently for Nick Cave "solo" tours. Born of babbling lyrics hatched from Bosch eggshells in the Hyde-bound apocalyptic margins of the Cave brain, the Grinderman sound is an instinctual yawlp that also resurrects the demons of each musician's past: the trashcan proselytising of Birthday Party -era Nick; Sclavunos' late 70s New York no-wave noise wisdom; Martyn Casey's ominous Triffids bass reverb; plus Ellis' avant-garde soundtrack work and his teenage love of Black Sabbath. Destination: Out! Grinderman sound different from everyone, including themselves. As Memphis Slim put it back in 1941, "While everything is quiet and easy/ Mr. Grinder can have his way." It's a new day. God help you all.Grinderman is the sound of indie rock legends growing old disgracefully, and that is by no means a criticism. From the opening rant of "Get It On," this is an album with all the menace of an angry drunk, dripping with anger and testosterone (as the surfeit of facial hair in the band's interior photo will attest). It could even be the sound of Nick Cave's midlife crisis, but it doesn't matter, because Grinderman rocks. It's the sound of four musicians having a grand time, turning the volume up to 11 and really cutting loose. For that reason, it's the more upbeat tracks here that are probably the best: "Honey Bee (Let's Fly to Mars)" with its driving electric organ, the primal urgency of "Depth Charge Ethel," and the strutting album closer "Love Bomb." After all the po-faced seriousness he's displayed in recent years, it's good to know that Cave has rediscovered his sense of humour: "I cleaned the sheets on my bed, I combed the hairs across my head, I sucked in my gut and still she said, 'I don't want to,'" he sings on "No Pussy Blues," with his tongue firmly in cheek (amongst other places). Simply put, Grinderman is a hoot. --Ted Kord
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