Release
date: 23rd
February 2018. Label: Heavy Psych Records. Format: CD/DD/Vinyl
Dave's
Dungeon – Tracklisting
Yello
Terraformations
Red
barn
Hero
With A Gun
Mace
Face
P51
Space
Native
On
Fire
Dungeon
Dave
Was
Ist Los?
Members
Alfredo
Hernández
James
Childs
Charles
Pasarell
Review
Hands
up those of you who have never heard of AVON!
I
knew it…Impossible not to have heard this name, if only because of
the presence of a real piece of history on drums, Alfredo Hernández
(KYUSS, QOTSA, Brant Bjork). Together with James Childs (Guitar) and
Charles Pasarell (Bass), Alfredo has managed to set up a project
having its roots in the old school desert rock.
AVON
do not play ‘modern stoner rock’. They do not go to the spasmodic
search for the ‘riff winking the eyes of the founding fathers’
(and they could do it, being one of them!). No. AVON is a ‘naked
and raw’ band that don’t give a fuck to align with the current
trends. Dave's Dungeon (Heavy Psych Sounds) is an album that is
outside the conventional schemes, in some ways hard to assimilate for
current stoner/desert rock listeners, accustomed today to the usual
‘4 riffs in drop C’ that all sound the same without attitude.
Although
certainly not a milestone, in this work AVON have been able to reread
their own influences in their own way. Which is not trivial,
considering that they, themselves, were for years the forerunners of
a genre very inflated nowadays. There are many influences in Dave's
Dungeon. There are the Jethro Tull (Hero With A Gun), there are the
psychedelic version of the QOTSA of ‘Feel Good Hit of the Summer’
(Yello), there are Yawning Man, and there is all the atmosphere of
that time where a van, two generators and the sunset show in the
Coachella Valley were enough.
This
last work by AVON is a very well-played album, where bass, guitar and
drums are wonderfully intertwined with vocal melodies. The only flaw
is, to my opinion, the lack of a production a little rougher than the
current one.
I
really enjoyed this. It took me more listening, I admit it. It is an
album based on a sound little aside by the average listener, who
confuses stoner with doom and believes that 'Female Fronted' is a
musical genre, but that, paradoxically, brings a breath of fresh air.
Stealing the words of my good pale Steve (on the review of their
previous work) "Well if you're a fan of old school" Desert
/ Stoner "Rock with a hint of vintage" Psychedelia then
you're going to have a huge amount of fun with this album ".
Again,
I sign word for word.
Words
by Bruno Bellisario
Thanks to Claire at
Purple Sage PR for the promo. Dave's Dungeon will be released on
CD/DD/Vinyl via Heavy Psych Sounds from February 23rd 2018.
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