Josh Homme (Kyuss/QOTSA) gathers friends to lay down some grooves, come up with some ditties, and engage in various fuckery that gets recorded and plapped out.
Like a group of cupcake-eaters racing for the slide, these four shout it out. But with musicianship this good, their childvoices project them into cultdom.
They claim to’ve “transcended” Big Beat, the style they helped invent: Layered funk and rock beats, tweaked noise howls, and an overwhelming bass sound.
The Atomic Bitchwax had my immediate attention: They have the best band name; the guitarist is from Monster Magnet; there’s a naked chick on the cover.