Released: 2001
I've been thinking of creating a website dedicated to album covers with boobs on them. If I ever do, this album's cover will be one of the star attractions. Staring at the Divine could mean the pose of the large-breasted female of the cover or it could mean what you are doing when you're looking at the cover, but it also means that inside is a killer record.
By about the second bar of the second track I was banging my head merrily with a big smile on my face and thinking, “What a fucking great album!” And so it is! Anyone looking for big fat beer-drinking rock n roll need go no further than this baby. Alabama Thunderpussy's fourth full length album is nothing less than a glorious noise of enormously obese guitars chugging out dirty, low-down rock with a voice fuelled by moonshine and unfiltered cigarettes. Staring at the Divine is AC/DC with a monstrous bass sound, a happier Black Sabbath or maybe what Lynyrd Skynyrd would’ve sounded like if they’d formed in the early 90s instead of the 1970s.
Staring at the Divine is, quite simply, everything you could want from a sludge/rock album and even serves up some good ol’ banjo-pluckin’ hillbilly music to close the set. Need more be said? Just rock.
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- Shapeshifter
- Whore Adore
- Hunting by Echo
- Beck and Call
- Twilight Arrival
- Esteem Fiend
- SSDD
- Amounts that Count
Rating: 85%
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