Kilgore Smudge--Blue Collar Solitude

Kilgore Smudge--Blue Collar Solitude(1995/Unsound) Rating--8.3

A nice find, as this is very much like early ('Core-'era) Stone Temple Pilots. Heavy, chunky chord movements, and gruff-like vox. There are shades of Gruntruck, and even some underlying doom hints of Trouble! Surprising, nasty stuff...
A number of tracks are of the "solid" variety, including "Hangtime," "Cleaner," "Fridgafloor," and the rolling "Therapy".
"3" is sharp and caustic, while some heavy chord chunking bites through "Blue Collar Zen". "Die Cast Mold" is strong, with some nasty mid-riffs, and check out those nasty mid-song grooves in "Senorita Beefeater"!
A nice buy, indeed. If you like metal of the stripped-down variety, seek this one out.
TRACK LIST: Hangtime/Metamorphosis/Trial/Cleaner/Middleway/Therapy/3/Blue Collar Zen/Senorita Beefeater/ Fridgafloor/Die Cast Mold

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