Description
Label Review.
2018 album also available in Vinyl.
Our Overview.
Mudhoney release their new album ‘Digital Garbage. Since the late 80s, Mudhoney - the Seattle-based foursome whose muck-crusted version of rock, shot through with caustic wit and battened down by a ferocious low end - has been a high-pH tonic against the ludicrous and the insipid. Thirty years later, the world is experiencing a particularly high-water moment for both those ideals. Just in time, vocalist Mark Arm, guitarist Steve Turner, bassist Guy Maddison and drummer Dan Peters are back with ‘Digital Garbage’, a barbed-wire-trimmed collection of sonic brickbats.
Arm’s raw yawp and his bandmates’ long-honed chemistry make ‘Digital Garbage’ an ideal release valve for the 2018 pressure cooker. “My sense of humor is dark, and these are dark times,” says Arm. “I suppose it’s only getting darker.”
“I would’ve really just loved to write songs about just hanging out on the beach, and going on a nice vacation,” says Arm. “But, you know, that probably doesn’t make for great rock.” Mudhoney, however, know what does make great rock - and the riffs and fury of ‘Digital Garbage’ will stand the test of time, even if the particulars fade away. “I’ve tried to keep things somewhat universal, so that this album doesn’t just seem like of this time - hopefully some of this stuff will go away,” Arm laughs. “You don’t want to say in the future, ‘Hey, those lyrics are still relevant. Great!’”
Mudhoney will be touring Europe in 2018.
CD in die-cut gatefold digipak with custom dust sleeve. LP in die-cut gatefold jacket with custom dust sleeve and digital download coupon. Cassette in four-panel J-card in clear case. Digital download album.