Melvins – Houdini
Posted by Aaron on December 12th, 2009

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Houdini is about as close as one gets to a representative Melvins album, and it vividly captures the band’s unreconstructed power, vision, and musical strangeness.
Tracklisting
1. Hooch
2. Night Goat
3. Lizzy
4. Going Blind
5. Honey Bucket
6. Hag Me
7. Set Me Straight
8. Sky Pup
9. Joan Of Arc
10. Teet
11. Copache
12. Pearl Bomb
13. Spread Eagle Beagle
Professional Reviews
Spin (11/93, p.133) – Highly Recommended – “…A few sections on [HOUDINI] are recorded so hot that the guitar distortion literally breaks up into white noise in your speakers: the hits are classic Melvins tuneage, which means they’ll make you wonder if the batteries are going dead in your radio…”
Musician (11/93, p.13) – “…[HOUDINI] is a slow-motion barrage of buzzsaw noize apocalypso, with tracks like “Pearl Bomb” achieving a formal brilliance that slams together the Ramones, Stooges, Glenn Branca and Rhys Chatham….”




