Editorial Reviews
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Music Review
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Amazon.com
His underground musical pedigree is stellar: Brant Bjork played drums and wrote songs as a member of the stoner-rock band Kyuss and also produced and drummed for Fu Manchu. His own work retains some of his previous bands’ post-grunge flavor--but just a bit. There’s no ponderous, down-tuned Sabbath-influenced jamming, and in fact, some songs, like "Cheap Wine," are wonderfully bouncy and cheerfully cheesy. Bjork opens and closes the disc with a kicked-back jazzy exploration called "Hinda65," while winningly infectious songs like "Smarty Pants" and "My Ghettoblaster" are funky, trippy, hippie pop. Lounge-influenced keyboard lines intermix wonderfully and whimsically with riffing guitars on the instrumental "Cocoa Butter." --Katherine Turman
Album Description
Brant Bjork has been an influential songwriting member of the legendary Kyuss and Fu Manchu. He is now a full time member of Queens Of The Stone Age. This 2002 release has retained that feel of the desert, but rarely hides the fact that he's given to leisure travel as the mood suits him.