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v ere are livii bands tinder
the saute label, with ver\
8$ &' similar sounds
Fudge Tunnel hail (mm Fug
and and Si*ason In Risk are from
lie Midwest
Moth have a vers U.S.•orient•
>d sound with large degrees of
iistnrtion and moaning lyrii s
mull like I'.S underground
leroes Ilte |esiis I.izard and Son
< Youth
Although both play a vers
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he Hrits svho have 1.011111 up svith
1 better disi . not to mention a
letter name
Fudge Tunnel's second release,
.rrrp Dirts, is by far the supe
•ior of the two. largely because
>1 its posverfu! hooks and a more
brei t sound overall.
It's the subtle tilings tb it make
'.rrrp Dirts a min li more listen
ible ijbtim than Season To Risk's
ielf-tftlerl debut
If you're into lyric s luting sang
or slurred) through a heavily dis
orted microphone, both of these
bands have plenty of it Hut mam
turn's the mumbling gels boring
after the second tr.n k unless
there s something else to keep
\on listening
I edge Tunnel's i\ rn s take a
back seat to the powerful, bass
heavv sound of the music They
use equal parts of booming
rhythms and memorable books
to t reate a sound that is not
unlike Soundgarden without
Chris Cornell:
Season To Risk however, fail
for the most part to deliver any
thing that catchy The album
kind ol stumbles along with
singer Steve Tulipana try ing to
trip out the listener with weird
lyrics Again, that wouldn't he
a problem it the band held up its
end of the bargain Hut it doesn't
Instead. Season l o Risk come off
as ,i very. very poor man 's The
Jesus Lizard
Season To Risk show potential
on the driving "Why See
Straight" and the mellow
"Home." hut float aimlessly
between those two songs the rest
of the wav
Creep Dirts, on the other hand,
has at least six songs that grab
vou the first listen "(.rev," the
album's opener, has an unmis
takable Soinuigarden-ish feel to
it (w it hoi it ( aimed) A monstrous
hook sucks the listener in and the
song i hugs along from there.
"Tipper (.ore" and "Good
Ku king" resemble many of the
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