A few years back now, Californian stoner-rock band KYUSS put out an album which contained only 3 track indexes on it, each track containing 3 songs. Why? Because they felt the album need to be given unbroken attention, to be truly appreciated...and for the record, they were absolutely fucken right about that - that album is timeless.

Sleep have done pretty much the same thing...except I find myself hating this album with a passion - due to boredom.

One "song" : broken into six tracks, looping a remarkably boring doom riff over, and over and over a-fucking-gain; peppered with some typically inane stoner-lyrics. (eg: "Drop out of life, bong in hand...") Don't get me wrong, pot can do great things for creativity, but it usually also turns you into a hippie after a while.

Disclaimer : I did hear rumours about this album being written/recorded purely to spite the record label (London Records) that thought it was signing the next Nirvana or something...ala Fudge-Tunnel/Columbia - maybe that explains it, who knows. At this juncture though, I'd like nothing better than to toss the collective Sleep into my bong, and torch them like the ovens of Auschwitz.

Songs about pot and Israel indeed. Fucking boring.

© 2000 brett