Spider Kitten – Major Label Debut

 

Spider Kitten – Major Label Debut
Self released – 2021
Rock, Grunge, Stoner, Alternative, Nineties, Sludge
Rated: ****

Let us begin with the statement of intend that Spider Kitten frontman Chi Lameo put forward in his email to us: “I love grunge and 90s alternative. Our last few albums have been very proggy, long songs, dense concept, lots of synths. I just really wanted to make something a bit simpler and straightforward. Eight shorter songs that knock your socks off.” So, we know what we are in for! And their self-released newest album Major Label Debut delivers on all fronts and then some! Highly eclectic, chuck full of ideas, the album starts of with a proper stomper! A Problematic Favorite stamps a hefty imprint upon your senses, overtly sludgy and marauding like a twisted Mammoth. It shows us once again that the twenty year old Spider Kitten can do it all, which becomes all the more obvious when nineties alternative and grunge rocking The Art Of Sleeping wallops its waves of heaviness over your soul; once again imploring that sludge and massive approach to the sound. And they continue this gargantuan take throughout the album, going in more punk direction one track or even more atavistic stoner the next. There’s just one track that really irks me, for some weird and possibly insane reason. Fifth track Self Care (Makes Me Wanna Die), is a simple, straightforward punky rocker, but after having had the album on repeat the past weeks, the screaming guitar in combination with the repeated vocal lines have become this annoying mantra that is really troubling. Maybe it’s because of a possible mirroring effect? Or maybe it’s the whole intention of the track? For me it’s the only miss on this Major Label Debut album full of hits!

(Written by JK)

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