This is Left Lane Cruiser's sixth album and the first one I've heard so I have no idea if they are more or less stoned on this album than the others, or whether it's the bands best or worst record, come to that. I do know that it's a damn good stoner blues album, so light up a big one, sit down or stand up and get down with the Dirty Spliff Blues.
This album literally leaps out the speakers at you from the get go with Tres Borrachos which actually sounds like they want to be Peer Gynt or The Allman Brothers on speed. It's dirty blues with a thin single skin spliff hanging out the side of its mouth as the monster slide guitar solo gets going to blow your mind.
Elephant Stomp seems to take us down into the swamp to get chased by demons accusing them of sounding like Heavy Trash while smoking some truly elephantine hashish as the riff rolls round your mind with the smoke.
Whitebread 'n Beans is fire-breathing blues for that most basic of meals. The title is also a great insult to call anyone whitebread so I'm guessing this cat is smoking a spliff that's half Oregano half low grade bush as the band rams home its message in the monster riffs they are building to a colossal finish.
Tangled Up In Bush is obviously about what happens once you've smoked a Henry's worth of Bush in the biggest dirtiest spiff you can build. Thankfully, it's obviously not what the dirtiest spliff I ever smoked did to me as just thinking about the dash to the loos to throw my guts up after just one hit and praying not to get thrown out of the gig I was at would not be cool. But the guitars are wrapping their way round my brain melting the sides in this smoke filled abyss.
Heavy Honey comes on like a fine blond hash all whispish and calming and in love with a revolving riff to seduce the object of his desires. He's dancing slithering towards her and enticing her to have just one more hit of this heavy honeyed hash before he says just what he wants with no subtlety at all.
Dirty Spliff Blues is the band's menu and what it wants over crushing riffs like they are crushing the hardest hash imaginable. The stuff that comes like a brick that you have to chisel off as it doesn't burn off mixed with buried longer than it should have been Zul. It's gonna blow you brains away like the music will too.
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Cutting Trees sounds like a slightly heavier North Mississippi Allstars meets Jim Jones Revue tune. It's in a similar vein and I love the guitar that sounds like a buzz saw, but are they cutting down bud grown to tree size? Hell what else is there to do in the backwaters all day?
All Damn Day scorches the brain as you start another all-day session. Go on, don't you want it? They certainly do as the guitar strings sound slack and wobbling from the Colombian gold rattling through the place. Skateboard Blues is obviously one of the songs that new member Joe Bent plays a Skateboard guitar on!! He conjures up a monster slide blues sound like Jnr Kimbrough amped to 11 and then some with a Mexican industrial spliff being destroyed as he plays. Damn what a sound it is!
The album closes with a sort of lust song, She Don't Care For A Woman. It don't care about him it's got explosive guitars and tribal drumming to burn into your brain. How much she don't care I can only guess as she got some other guy with a big bag of Thai Sticks and is occupied elsewhere being splattered by something other than the sonic brew that's devastating my mind right now.
Left Lane Cruiser at Alive Naturalsound Records
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