dereck

This album rules. I’m a newly converted Cheek Freak and have gone back and listened to the rest of the catalog after I heard this and while it is all so interesting, fun, and great, Podium has the best production and musicality of the lot. A unique band with a unique sound that really scratches an itch for me. I saw them on the recently finished tour and the live show was just as good as you’d thing it’d be. A+ band and A+ album.

I love QOTSA very much but after a handful of listens, I’m not sure I’ll return to this one often in its entirety. There are some tracks that’ll make it on to a playlist but some just ain’t hittin’ for me. It feels so underproduced and the songs seem like leftovers from other projects (Iggy Pop, TCV etc). I know Josh is saying this is a new era for the band, and I am one who loves it when a band takes big swings and tries new things, but this doesn’t feel like that to me. Queens have such a unique tone to their music and this really just feels generic.