Orange Goblin – Time Travelling Blues – Review

Orange Goblin

Time Travelling Blues (Rise Above/TMC)
by Martin Popoff

Like most in this genre, Orange Goblin are getting versatile, choosing to offer a myriad of sounds and more importantly songs, cleaning up the production and getting tuneful. So toward this end, we get as much Kiss, Deep Purple, and Mountain as we do Sabbath here, all delivered with tongue-in-cheek, really playing on this whole space-brain theme. Vocals are a bit back, limiting your party connection with the thing, but all in all, consider these guys the fast food version of labelmates Sheavy, mostly due to the perfectly uneventful production, which is more of a negative than a positive here, again, perhaps exposing the shallow fallow of such a nailed-down genre. One point penalty for use of a safety harness.
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