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Brown Album
Rock · 1997 · 15 tracks

Brown Album

Thick, murky analog textures and percussive grooves recorded in a California cabin. A muddy, bass-heavy pivot toward surrealist psycho-jazz and funk metal.

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It sounds like it was recorded inside a giant wooden barrel and it's their best groove record.

A thick, rhythmic murk that balances absurdist humor with a gritty, analog restlessness.

Brown Album · vs · Primus
Upright Bass+1.7σ

The instrumentation foregrounds upright bass notably more than the catalogue usually does.

Tracklist · 15 Tracks
01
The Return of Sathington Willoughby
5:04
02
Fisticuffs
4:24
03
Golden Boy
3:05
04
Over the Falls
2:41
05
Shake Hands With Beef
4:02
06
Camelback Cinema
3:59
07
Hats Off
1:57
08
Puddin’ Taine
3:37
09
Bob’s Party Time Lounge
4:43
10
Duchess and the Proverbial Mind Spread
3:29
11
Restin’ Bones
3:29
12
Coddingtown
2:52
13
Kalamazoo
3:30
14
The Chastising of Renegade
5:02
15
Arnie
3:54
Moments Worth Waiting For
The percussive, almost industrial slap of the bass strings hitting the fretboard on Shake Hands With Beef.
The way the drums on Fisticuffs sound like they were recorded inside a wooden crate.
The eerie, loping upright bass melody that carries the narrative of Over the Falls.
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