Tweak Bird Jams

You know the album you are about to listen to is going to be something special when the cover consists of two bearded slightly over weight dudes with glasses and Native American head-dresses are captured in an action shot on a motorcycle. Once I stopped laughing at how ridiculous this record looks, I plopped Tweak Bird's self titled debut album in the player and let my speakers explode in a wall of fuzzed out metallic chaos. Tweak Bird may look like rejects from a geeks on parade line up but their record sounds like the best thing between 70's Black Sabbath and Queen of the Stone Age. Fuzzed out, stoned, dethroned, and hooked on metal, Tweak Bird crank up their amps, put a heavy foot on the pedals and blow out your mind.

With jams that sound as if a drunken Ozzy found his way back to Birmingham in 1971 and fell flat on his face combined with an absolutely distorted sound that's an endangerment to anything with ears, Tweak Bird are the living embodiment of what defines stoner rock today. These guys seem to only know about three riffs but manage to stretch their guitar wranglings into a ten song trip across the magical universe and back again at light speed. With only one song clocking in at over five minutes, Tweak Bird manage to do all this rather quickly and just as the band finish tuning their guitars it seems as though the record is over. What you don't realize in this speedy blur is that sound of guitars tuning is actually Tweak Bird cranking up the gigawatts and gettin' down, man. This is blistering, sun drenched, tripped out rock and roll that even finds a way to include saxophones into the mix and when it's done with them it sets them on fire and lets them melt into the earth.

If ever there was a musical scorched earth policy for music, Tweak Bird and their debut album would be the poster child for it. From, the short blasts of scuzz on, "The Future," to the prog rock expansions of, "Distant Airways," Tweak Bird don't mess around in their quest for the never ending jam. Put it this way, Tweak Bird is an unsettling blistering record that's all about bone crunching power delivered in bucket loads.