Ozium keep chugging out great stoner/retro hard rock. Next up is Swedish retro/stoner band Remuda Dust. The band released the three-track EP “Superhighway" in 2000 and then nothing more happened. Now Ozium is finally releasing an album with the bands collected work. Eight tracks, recorded between 1999 and 2001 (as the title suggests). Remuda Dust is a pretty rough-edged, slightly garagy unit. The guys look and sound quite young (which they probably at the time) and especially the vocals have that young and unruly touch to them. “Facing The Engine” on the other features some really mature sounding guitar solos. “Cactus Canyon” is almost punky in its attitude, with a touch of Sator at times. The first three tracks were featured on the band’s only release, and you can clearly that the track “Bleed”, produced by Janne Bark, that ends sida A, is recorded at a different occasion. The guitars are fat, fuzzy and really brutal. A great high-energy track. The tracks on side B were produced by Johan Carlsson and the opener “Baby Blue” opens with some pure barbwire guitar. This is definitely garage stoner in its purest form. Raw and unpolished with a punkish attitude. I came to think of that this is probably what it would have sounded like if The Sonics had reunited as a stoner band. “Emotional” continues in a more boogie-oriented vein. The guitars sound like they have been in a frying pan for about four hours! “Tijuana” continues in a heavier vein, and is probably my favorite on the album. “18-wheeler” ends the album in a more up-tempo stoner-shuffle vein. This is raw, rough, juvenile, powerful, crunchy, fuzzy stoner rock straight from the crotch!
Janne Stark
Label: Ozium Records
Year: 2023
Country: Sweden
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