Hissing, barking, drilling and sputtering cantankerousness splattershot through a hard-nose garage template that doesn’t ignore the past 20 years like many do.
Another entry in the John Garcia subgenre, Hermano will come as no surprise to those who’ve heard Garcia’s other post-Kyuss projects, Slo Burn and Unida.
Featuring members of Kyuss, Queens Of The Stone Age, Goatsnake, and Fatso Jetson, this thing is full of acoustic guitars, horn sections, and mellowness.
A reasonable sonic facsimile of Kill ‘Em All. The tempos are fast but not blinding, and everything has the sandpaper-dry ca-chunk ca-chunk rhythm guitar sound.
A tangent to the grunge big bang. They didn’t have that one big tune to get’m over. The guitar player was Jack Endino, just about the house producer at Sub Pop.