Spidergawd – VI

 

 

Spidergawd – VI
Crispin Glover Records – 2021
Rock
Rated: ****

Spidergawd crashed into the Doom Charts with their new album VI. With a new guitar player in their midst the Spidergawd sound on the new album VI has propelled toward more guitar orientated compositions and textural coloring. That ever present soulful sax from earlier albums has been pushed back and is used more like a framework in between which the band uses every other aspect of their new sound to paint colorful, seventies inspired pictures. Also new; and definitely an improvement is the adding of more vocal lines and polyphonic parts. The way the vocals now bounce across the Spidergawd groove makes it all definitely more attractive and compelling. It’s their sixth album; a different one, yet when listening, it quickly becomes trusted, familiar and loved. It’s still Spidergawd, in all its glory!

(Written by JK)

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Number 15

Number 15

How about those three bands on Number 16! All of them delivered a majestic album this year and it’s almost a sin to go on to Number 15 today! But we do it anyway, cause the Top 20 Countdown is relentless! We jump 26 points to reach Number 15 and a band that has been delivering amazing albums since their conception but has never actually made the final Top 20 list of the yearly Stoner HiVe Countdown for some weird and probably insane reason. But now they have! For their fifth album got voted one massively by all you crazies out there. It arrived in January through Stickman Records / Crispin Glover Records and it quickly became a household favorite with many. It’s still their golden post-boogie, swinging seventies, approach to heavy rock. The album starts out with a glorious and filthy sax. And then quickly follow eight tracks with their take on how a monstrous and moving rock song should be made. Tracks filled with amazing licks, vocals and melodies, all produced so crisp and choppy it almost feels like a pop record! On Number 15 we find!

Spidergawd – V

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