Melvins
Houdini
Rare & Collectible Vinyl Records

Sealed Latest Run Of The 2016 180gm Remastered Reissue From Third Man Records; Housed In A Gatefold Jacket And Includes The Bonus Track "Rocket Reducer #62 (Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa)". "To Essay A Concise, Surefooted Summation Of The Melvins' Catalog Would Be Reductive At Best, And Laughable At Worst. This Is, Of Course, Underground Rock's Trio Of Pranksters -- Unpredictable And Capable Of Complete Musical About-faces In The Turn Of A Measure. That Said, Houdini Is About As Close As One Gets To A Representative Melvins Album, And It Vividly Captures The Band's Unreconstructed Power, Vision, And Musical Strangeness. During The Early-'90s Purge Of Hair Rock And Candy-footed Funk Metal, The Melvins, As With Many Other Acts, Seemed Fair Game For A Major Label In Search Of Another Post-nirvana Gold Mine. With Kurt Cobain's Assistance, The Band Was Snatched Up -- And Summarily Dropped (After Three Brilliant Albums, This Being The First) -- By Atlantic. Though Houdini's Immediate Predecessors, Eggnog And Bullhead, Pried Open A Few Screwball Chasms In The Melvins' Syrupy Distillation Of Sabbath Riffage And Flipper's Noisy Anti-punk, It Was This Album That Displayed The Full Fruition Of The Outfit's Sonic Breadth, From The Cough-syrup River Drag Of "Night Goat" To The Revved-up "Honey Bucket," And From The Creepy "Joan Of Arc" To The Glue-damaged "Sky Pup." Ringleader King Buzzo's Riffs Are Stretched -- Taffy-like -- To Meltdown, And At Other Times They Are Razor Sharp. Either Way, They Abound With A Lumbering, Lurching Power. With Their Voluminous Output And Determination To Continuously Expand Their Sound Regardless Of Musical Trends, The Melvins Oeuvre Has Begun To Rival -- At Least On Paper -- The Career Arcs Of Frank Zappa And Neil Young." AMG - Patrick Kennedy.