Primordial Review on Desert-Rock.com

French review: T.H.U.M.B. - Primordial Echoes For Modern Bigfoots Sorti sur le label Go Down Records en 2012 Chroniqué par Laurent

Venise, ses canaux sinueux, ses petites rues calmes, ses gondoles, ses flots de touristes… et son groupe de stoner « maison », T.H.U.M.B. ! Forcément, à première vue, le contraste rebute un peu. Pour autant, le trio vénitien s’inscrit franchement dans la droite lignée des meilleurs groupes de stoner transalpins, aussi étonnant que cela puisse paraître. Huit années après sa précédente sortie vinylique (soyons honnêtes… on avait oublié jusqu’à leur existence) ils déboulent avec une nouvelle rondelle chez les excellents Go Down Records. Le premier constat est que la prod est un peu sommaire, parfois rêche, les bords sont mal ébarbés : la saturation croustille un peu, le fuzz crépite, clairement les potards sont tous sur 11. Au final, le souffle sourd qui sort des enceintes est chaud et rauque, brut de décoffrage certes, mais globalement plutôt séduisant. Le genre musical pratiqué ici ne chamboulera pas grand monde : le stoner très classique du groupe se compose pour l’essentiel de morceaux lancinants, parfois plus punchy, de riffs lourds, le tout accompagné d’une basse ronde et grasse bien saturée (hmmm, l’intro de « Reaching the afterglow »), et d’une batterie qui met le paquet sur les rondelles cuivrées, les roulements et la frappe de mulard dès qu’il s’agit de susciter le headbang (« Road song », « Pietrosaurus »). Petit point faible : les vocaux, même s’ils remplissent leur modeste office (plutôt second rôle, voire même figurant au casting), ne cassent pas trois pattes à un canard cul de jatte. Pour le reste, franchement, cherchez pas trop loin : c’est la musique idéale à enfourner dans le lecteur de CD de sa voiture, le bras dehors contre la portière, à tracer la route sous le cagnard… Ca groove, ça dépote, et pour autant ça se permet de coller quelques passages ambiancés plus psyche voire space-rock (en recourant notamment à quelques insertions de claviers ou d’harmonica). Ne vous laissez pas décourager par l’assez médiocre artwork qui orne cette galette : même si l’on n’est pas face au disque le plus excitant de la décennie, cet album plutôt sexy devrait sans problème satisfaire pleinement la plupart des fans de stoner traditionnel. Un disque modeste par ses ambitions mais plaisant par son attitude. Un positionnement marketing pas si stupide au final…

Primordial review on Aural Innovation

T.H.U.M.B. – “Primordial Echoes For Modern Bigfoots”

(Go Down Records 2012, CD)

October 15, 2012 Aural Innovations

T.H.U.M.B. are an Italian Stoner-Psych trio who incorporate lots of spaced out effects into their songs. Primordial Echoes For Modern Bigfoots is the band’s first new release since 2004′s Lunar Flight EP.
Compositionally, the 12 songs on the album are pretty basic, but what gives T.H.U.M.B. their character is their raw, dirty sound, punky vocal style, and their use of effects. Songs like Monstergods and Superlover feature down ‘n dirty spaced out Stoner Rock, with the latter song have especially cool tripped out guitar effects. Wear It Out is similar but with a far more valium-like sludgy quality. Inconsistence starts off as a more straightforward rocker, though still packs a stoned punch and has some killer psyched out guitar. Either someone else is singing or the vocalist just changed his style for this song, which is more “normal” singing and lacks the raw, punky edge of the other tracks. Road Song and Stonebridge Deluxe feature hip shakin’ stoner rock ‘n roll. Lived Namow goes in a completely different direction, being a 2 minute acoustic guitar and harmonica Blues tune. But as examples of deep space Stoner Rock my favorites of the set are Into The Deepest Green and Reaching The Afterglow. Both have great guitar effects, and Reaching The Afterglow goes totally Stoner Space Rock. It rocks hard, has a good groove, brain candy psych guitar, and has the freakiest spaced out effects on the album. Lots of variety on this one. Overall a pretty good set. A few songs tended to meander too much, but when T.H.U.M.B. find the right combination of groove and effects, they’re a hell of a lot more interesting than many of the contemporary stoner bands.

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Primordial Review on Perkele.it

T.H.U.M.B. - "Primordial Echoes for Modern Bigfoots"

Il super stoner torna all'assalto con "Primordial Echoes for Modern Bigfoots", atteso ritorno dei trevigiani T.H.U.M.B. a ben sei anni dallo scioglimento. Una reunion insperata per il power trio che in passato ci aveva deliziato con album drogati e irsuti come "Overloaded Rock'n'Roll" e "Lunar Flight". Paolo 'Bokal' (basso, voce), Luca 'The Zmudah' (chitarra, voce) e Lisa (batteria) sono sempre gli stessi, fautori di uno stoner granitico, imbastito a dovere con infiltrazioni space, cannonate rock'n'roll e vibrazioni Seventies. La registrazione è sporca e garage, tuttavia non si dà molto peso a quest'aspetto: qui contano le canzoni, che restano polverose, monolotiche, allucinatorie.
Bordate stoner rock che fanno gelare il sangue nelle vene ("Inconsistence", la bellissima "Superlover", "Pietrosaurus"), arditi e melodici passaggi boogie ("Road Song"), intermezzi acustici da sbronza al bar ("Lived Narrow"), bizzarre zuffe western stoner ("East Clintwood"). Tutto ciò erano e sono i T.H.U.M.B., propulsori incontenibili della psichedelia heavy. Passaggi lavici di marca sabbathiana ("Monstergods") e aperture lisergiche ossessive ("Into the Deepest Green") conducono fino alla commovente cover di "Wear It Out ", dal colosso "Dope Deal" dei mai troppo compianti 500 Ft of Pipe: pura archeologia heavy psych. Il finale epico ("Reaching the Afterglow") e dopato ("Stonebridge Deluxe") congeda con la grazia di un mammut da questo universo monolitico e cavernoso.
Se il moderno uomo bigfoot è alla spasmodica ricerca di viaggi stoner psych, ecco la ricetta ideale per soddisfarne gli umori.



Alessandro Zoppo 

Primordial Review on Nerds Attack

T.H.U.M.B [Primordial Echoes For Modern Bigfoots-Go Down Records 2012]

Sep 12th, 2012 | By NerdsAttack.net 

Questo disco dei T.H.U.M.B. è così sporco e stoner che mentre lo suonate per la stanza vi sentirete gli abiti infangati di polvere e terra, così come avrete la bocca arida e assetata. Acid rock straight edge fino alla morte senza concessione alcuna, bisogna aspettare il brano numero sette per averne una alla melodia e ad un minimo di mid tempo. Le chitarre sono registrate ultra basse, ad un livello prossimo alla lava vulcanica. La voce probabilmente proviene dal sottosuolo. Acido e senza compomessi significa però anche ostico all’ascolto e chi non mangia pane e Monster Magnet ogni giorno non ce la farà, morirà con loro. [***]
Dante Natale

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GO DOWN RECORDS STAGE @ HOME FESTIVAL 2012

T.H.U.M.B. and others bands from the Go Down Family 

live at the Home Festival 2012 - Treviso

T.H.U.M.B. on Aural Innovation Show # 291

A Space rock number from our Primordial Echoes For Modern Bigfoots 
titled Reaching The Afterglow frohas been choosen
to appear on the show # 291 on Aural Innovations Space Rock Radio.

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Aural Innovations Space Rock Radio (show #291)