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Honky
Rock · 1997 · 10 tracks

Honky

Melvins

A radical pivot into experimental drones, oscillator noise, and absurdist soundscapes. The sound of a band finally free to follow their strangest impulses.

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It's the Melvins at their weirdest, trading riffs for oscillators and twenty minutes of silence.

A playful yet deeply unsettling descent into experimental noise and industrial-tinged sludge.

Honky · vs · Melvins
Mysterious+1.3σ

Mysterious saturates this record notably more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 10 Tracks
01
They All Must Be Slaughtered
8:17
02
Mombius Hibachi
1:59
03
Lovely Butterfly
2:10
04
Pitfalls in Serving Warrants
3:36
05
Air Breather Deep in the Arms of Morphius
12:12
06
Laughing With Lucifer at Satan’s Sideshow
2:17
07
How ‐‐++‐‐
3:27
08
Harry Lauders Walking Stick Tree
3:18
09
Grin
4:12
10
In the Freaktose the Bugs are Dying
29:24
Moments Worth Waiting For
The unsettling guest vocals of Kat Bjelland chanting about slaughter over a slow-motion rhythmic grind.
The transition into pure electronic oscillator drone during the twelve-minute sprawl of track five.
The sudden burst of traditional Melvins sludge riffing in Lovely Butterfly that vanishes as quickly as it arrived.
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