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Tomorrow is Record Store Day and among the many, many releases I’ll be hunting for, this is at the top of my list. Two of my favorite artists/bands covering each other do doing a masterful job of it. The Feist cover of “Black Tongue” ultimately beats out Mastodon’s cover of “A Commotion,” but only just. [...]
Writing content week in and week out is such an utter fucking chore. Not in the sense that I don’t like getting to talk about what I love and hate. Doubt that’ll ever get old. No, the thing that wears thin is how easy it is to fall into writing ruts. Unfairly easy. How many [...]
The Hunter makes a great case for how dependent Mastodon is on concept albums. Four previous full-lengths have demonstrated that having one in place anchored the band, making their sound, lyrics and track sequencing have a certain sense of cohesion and direction. Even Blood Mountain was successful as an album while still remaining the shakiest [...]
Want to hear Mastodon’s new album The Hunter without dirtying your soul up by visiting Pirate Bay? Have no fear as the band has posted the album in its goddamned entirety on YouTube. First impressions are a little scattered the moment. Lyrically, there are some painful lines and musically they jump all over the goddamned [...]
It’s not that Mastodon’s new song “Curl of the Burl” is underwhelming really, it’s just… strange. FP staffer Warren Binder summed it up better than I was able: “First impression? QotSA with better lead playing.” It’s not a knock against the track, but it definitely shares some Queens-esque vocal melodies/harmonies, possibly picked up from Josh [...]
Mastodon have finally released more info about The Hunter. This happens to include a presale option for the deluxe edition which includes a giant 20″ x 30″ lenticular poster of their bizarro deer/bull creature… for a LOT of money. Even better than that, though, they’ve released a rad video for “Black Tongue,” which was hinted [...]
Ever since Mastodon released the Crack the Skye b-side “Deathbound,” and the amazing cover art for their forthcoming The Hunter, we’ve been dying to hear something off the album, anything, to get an idea of where the band’s sound was going next. Mastodon finally obliged and posted a minute long teaser, giving a promising but ultimately [...]
Mastodon and Adult Swim have just premiered the new track and music video for “Deathbound,” replete with Mr. Rogers and Fraggle Rock imagery. And death. True to their word, it sounds like they’ve jettisoned a large portion of the expansive sound they’d developed for Crack the Skye and have gone back to something that sounds [...]
As good as Crack the Skye was (very), the album was still kind of scary in the sense that Mastodon was fully committed to a trajectory that held so much potential for disaster. Whether the loose concept that all of the albums were modeled after an element (earth, water, fire, burritos) or the entirely deserved success [...]
