GREEN DESERT WATER “Black Harvest”

By Solomon G

Coming off at first as a more SABBATH-y [early] QOTSA, GREEN DESERT WATER bring truckloads of cool analog effects - and the tone here is muah-chef-kiss excellent. In fact, if this isn’t a mostly analog throughput here, I would be very surprised. Hats off to the engineer.

Haaa - there’s a song called “Too Many Wizards”[!] Admit it - we’ve all thought the same thing.

Dig the cool octave-splitting, catchy as hell, groovy timbre of this one! Not long until the doom comes. Feel that long intro intro; bass with chorus and flange. Take an unexpected left into the 70s and beyond, and then boogie on back to doom, pilgrim - boogie on back to doom.

But can misery rock? Oh, yes the sweet sound of misery - but now with epic rollicking jam outs.

Rubbery riffs, strong hooks - shuffles off to SLEEP town for a visit [again, impeccable tone]; nods to MOTÖRHEAD AND Trower with soulful vox on good ’n’ riffy guitars. Nice, ambiguous finalé, as if there should be a part II…I dig it!

Juan Arias García - fuzz bass

Dani Barcena – drums, percussion

Kike Sanchís – guitars, vocals

Guests:

Kent Stump - additional guitar

Alvaro Barcena - backing vocals

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GREEN DESERT WATER