Album
Type:
Album
Date
Released:
April 26th
2015
Label:
The
Smoking Goat Records
Everything
Is Good - Track Listing:
1.Everything is Good
I 08:30
2.Universally
Droning 06:52
3.Red Fields 05:13
4.Shut Up, It's
Raining Yolks 06:06
5.When The Trip Ends
10:02
6.Hypnodope 09:08
7.Zug 04:03
8.Everything is Good
II 07:36
Members
Juri Tirelli –
guitar
Jacopo Tirelli –
bass
Mattia Piani –
drums
Bio:
Prehistoric Pigs are
a trio formed by brothers Juri (guitar) and Jacopo Tirelli (bass),
and by their cousin Mattia Piani (drums). The band was formed in 2012
as a direct prosecution of the jam sessions that the 3 guys used to
have for a lot of years. Prehistoric Pigs play an instrumental stoner
rock, with doom, space and psychedelic influences. Their heavy, rough
and distorted sound merge with Hendrixian solos, Kyuss style riffs
and krautrock melodies. The lysergic and ipnotic atmospheres evoked
by their music lead straight to the Californian desert, and then
float to the obscurity of Uranus skies and collapse to the deepest
bowels of the Earth. Prehistoric Pigs published their first album
“Wormhole Generator” in the end of 2012, with Moonlight Records.
After a lot of concerts in North Italy, they exported their music
abroad playing in festivals and clubs in Slovenia, Germany, Austria
and Ireland. In the summer of 2014, a “Split” with the irish band
Electric Taurus has been released by Go Down Records. After a series
of gigs all over Italy, and subsequently to the deal with The Smoking
Goat Records, Prehistoric Pigs are now getting ready for the release
of their second full length, expected for the spring of 2015.
Review:
Instrumental
rock, be it stoner like the Prehistoric Pigs or proggy like The
Bakerton Group, is a tough nut to crack but I have to admit the boys
pull it off well with their new disc “Everything is Good.”
“Everything
is Good I” opens the record. It’s heavy enough to get your
attention but not enough to overwhelm. The vibe begins to change
mid-song slowing down, moving into classic Pigs trippy soundscapes
picking back up again, dropping the axe and turning up the volume.
Great way to start the record.
Track
two, “Universally Droning,” opens with a Fu Manchu like fuzz
chord that leads into a full out wall of heavy sound, the kind of
thing you swear you can reach out and touch, it’s that solid, that
fierce. There’s a brief interlude of spaced out weirdness that
leads you into the storm, churning out a power chord maelstrom
guaranteed to knock you out of your chair. And when you think you
just can’t take it any longer the Pigs take it down a notch,
offering mercy in the form of a Sabbathy, doomy outro to the song.
“Red
Fields” begins acoustic, quiet, almost reserved leading into
another wall of fuzzed out sound that seemingly drops right on your
head, going back acoustic as if to prove that there is such a thing
as “quiet heaviness,” something I discovered a long time ago with
Blue Cheer and Saint Vitus. And then I hear old echoes of Kyuss
coming through near the end of the track against an outro of muffled
distortion.
“Shut
up it’s Raining Yolks” immediately becomes the most experimental
song of the record. I think it’s safe to say I enjoyed this track
the most since it screamed psychedelia to me, evoking images of
Paisley prints and Patchouli incense sticks in a style only the Pigs
could pull off, somewhere between pre supernova and post lunar
landscape.
“When
the Trip Ends” slows the tempo of the record down, moving back into
“quiet heaviness” I mentioned earlier. And it’s a song like
this that really makes me appreciate how well how the Prehistoric
Pigs have this amazing grasp of what the concept and definition of
“heavy” truly means. They get it. They have it figured out.
They understand how to create sonic textures, how to create moods and
atmospheres and get that across to the listener without the aid of
vocals, through music alone. That’s talent, that’s a gift.
“Hypnodope”
begins with down tuned chords so rich and thick it’ll hurt your
brain trying to understand how the Pigs can do it and not trigger
massive earthquakes and tsunamis in the process. Throughout the tune
are strange hushed whispers that permeate the background of
“Hypnodope,” disembodied voices that float back and forth, swept
up in the ebb and flow of the music, caught in the undertow,
appearing then disappearing, all without warning. Of all the songs
on this record this one probably has the most ominous, unsettling
feel to it.
The
second to last song, “Zug,” goes straight groovy with a
quasi-Trouble / Sabbath boogie tilt to it, worshipping at the altar
of Iommi, Wagner and Chandler leading into the final track of the
record, “Everything is Good II” taking that same approach that
track one had properly ending the record as it started.
If
you dig solid, heavy, fuzzed out instrumental rock you’ll really
appreciate what the Prehistoric Pigs have accomplished with
“Everything is Good” but getting past a band without vocals can
be a hard one. My advice to you: Give it a shot. After a while you
won’t even notice what you think you might be missing. Buy this
record.
Words
by Theron Moore
Thanks
To Marco at Metaversus PR for the promo. Everything Is Good is now
available to buy on CD/DD now.
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