The Danish
70s rock band, Fuzz Manta is back with their 3rd record. Opus 2 was
an excellent record and came out less than a year ago but I was really looking
forward to hearing how this record sounded. The band recorded it in their
rehearsal space and mixed it elsewhere. It is out on the Kozmik Artifactz label
on three different colours of vinyl in a fantastic gatefold sleeve with a
poster as well. The songs are all between 5 and 8 mins in length. Side A starts
off with And so she speaks. It begins with some acoustic guitar and then the
track takes off with a heavy bottom end sound bluesy guitar (including slide)
before Lene comes in on the vocal and it gets a bit heavier. A fantastic
opening number with Freddy playing some great solos as well. A very melodic
vocal line helps to make this a quite catchy track. Electric Heat is next and
another heavy 70s rocker with a slower pace and a quite in your face vocal.
This track has a really cool wah guitar section that is a bit psychedelic as
well as it really builds up at the end. Vertigo reminds me a bit of a modern
version of Hey Joe mixed with a bit of Robin Trower bridge of Sighs .
Freddy plays a beautiful blues solo as well. I also like the spacey wind at the
end of the track as well. Between the Lines is another hard hitting rocker with
a Clutch like groove and Freddy laying down the wah solo. Torke is a slow and
easy blues track with a slight spaceness to it as it begins. I really like the
layered guitars as it builds and reminds me of WE (less psychedelic Last
Stronghold of the Freaks!) during these spacey parts. Then the song structure
changes totally but with a really happy vibe. It is a great psychedelic number. The vocal seems more mixed into
this track compared to most of the other tracks, where at least on my stereo,
they are a bit too in your face. I honestly thought the record was over but the
band has placed like 3mins of silence in at the end of this track and then the
music fades back up from some sort of heavy jam right into the wah solo
section. Finally, here in Denmark ,
we are developing a band that writes kick ass 70s style material and plays it
well. A fucking fantastic record.
This is a site where I post reviews of CDs, DVDs, LPs, and concerts. I have been writing music reviews on and off since 1984. I ran a heavy metal fanzine from 1984-1988 called Metal Madness and have been a staff writer for Aural Innovations for many years. I have also contributed to Chrohinga Well (RIP), Bad Acid (RIP), Lowcut (RIP), Roadburn and a number of other zines as well. I recently moved to Portugal so please request the new address and do not send any music to Denmark anymore. Tak..
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Finally heard some of these folks: fantastic is right!
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Seriously, why are these people not on Bandcamp, selling me their music?
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