Black Sabbath on XTC? Stoner rock on uppers? Doom
rockers get therapy and take antidepressants? Sure.
Why not. The Attila & Dave project (consisting of
Attila Medveczky, Dave Stevenson and Rusty Aceves)
practice a terribly unique, perfectly unfashionable
brand of music that will leave you scratching your
head, saying, "Geez, Jim, I don't . . . I don't know
that I can rightly classify it, see, 'cause it's,
like, so different. But I like it." Sure, you've heard
that before and damn if I don't feel like slugging
myself with a rubber mallet for using it here but let's
face the facts: Every now and again it's true and this
is one of those times.
First off, the guys can write some strong lyrics and
since you can actually hear 'em singing 'em, you know
they gotta be important. Dig the opening lines of the
album and, also, the track "The Lotus Eaters": "Honey,
ah ah ah/Sweat leaf scent in the air/Sunny, ah ah
ah/Eating the flowers in your hair," or later lines
such as: "Smoke and mirrors take you in" (in "Smoke
and Mirrors," which is not what you think about,
though I'll be damned if these boys aren't clever as
'ell for disguising their message so well beneath a
cloud of stoner schtick), or even all the lines (no
retyping them here) of "The Golden Gates," an
anti-religion track (I'm assuming that the guys aren't
into religion and the fact that they don't thank God
or their church here is probably a pretty good sign as
are a bunch of the actual lyrics that I won't go into
here) that could teach a few of the most fervent black
metallers a thing or two about venom, for further
understanding at how good these guys are at what it is
they're doing.
The music ain't bad either (lots of dif'rent
influences, including a healthy dose of '60s stuff,
not just The Beatles, okay?) and you gotta wonder at
how the 'ell they keep it all so fresh. I dunno. I
dunno but know but I like it. Okay, now there was a
second thing here, I'm sure of that. No, wait. A third
thing with a second thing that needed expanding upon
but, like, I got caught up in the music and forgot.
Whatever. It's all good. Great packaging and some
really good guitar playing from Dave and, it's, like,
not as innocent as it looks but not as threatening as
it might sound.
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