Number 2

 

 

Number 2

Today we get to hear which album, which band will receive the Silver Medal for it’s album in 2021. The Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2021 is nearing conclusion, only two spots left. And we know Greenleaf and their Echoes From A Mass record is situated nicely on Number 3. So, who will it be? Well, we jump almost hundred points from Greenleaf on Number 3 to reach the album on Number 2. An album that fits the times so perfectly; even though it might not have been written with the state of the world in mind, it shows that these three cats can do more if not all with their music. As we already wrote back in May when we mentioned the album on the blog: “For you know, what might be missing from loads of great albums we all love so dearly in this enormous heavy rock niche we all curl up into to hide from the outside cold. Might be a sense of urgency and the ability to transcend the mundane; offering insights and feelings about what the human condition is going through. These guys have the strength and ability to make you feel that both we and they are hemmed in and torn by similar walls, frustrations and tragedies. The new album is dense enough to be compulsive, somewhat hard to hear at first, the precision and the fury that resides underneath the riffs and rhythms. Where their earlier record offered a same approach but all layered with a different sort of shade, they now show more humility and a dazed frenzy. The new album is about casualties, a search for alternatives, for something to do, something worthwhile. They emerge as masters at rendering the boredom and desperation of living comfortably in this society. Of translating the impossibility to escape the prison of prosperity. Often the sense of helplessness and impotence is not particularly pleasing; and such withering and brutal personal honesty is what now sets this band apart from most peers. The same can be said about those synapse-snapping shifts in tempo and tone or the way the bass weaves itself beneath all the different elements, lifting them up and with that emphasizing each one even more. It brings focus to every note played and every color chosen. Dense, concentrated and heavy but opening up whenever they allow the tension to slacken. The first of a set of three... Amazing artists with sublime craftmanship...” Second place, the Silver Medal of 2021 goes to the album on Number 2:

King Buffalo – The Burden Of Restlessness

 

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