1. No One Loves Me & Neither Do I 2. Mind Eraser, No Chaser 3. New Fang 4. Dead End Friends 5. Elephants 6. Scumbag Blues 7. Bandollers 8. Reptiles 9. Interlude With Ludes 10. Warsaw Or The First Breath You Take After You Give Up 11. Caligulove 12. Gunman 13. Spinning In Daffodils

Them Crooked Vultures (Los Angeles, CA)

(2009) LP – Them Crooked Vultures (Sony Music / Interscope)

Hard Rock / Psychedelic Rock / Stoner Rock

Josh Homme (Lead Vocals, Guitar)

John Paul Jones (Bass, Keyboards, Keytar, Vocals)

Dave Grohl (Drums, Vocals)

(Them Crooked Vultures unveil ‘Gunman’)

Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes! Today is my birthday, but more importantly, I just downloaded Them Crooked Vultures self-titled debut LP, a week before its release. That’s it, I’m borrowing my friend’s Shelby, packing up my camping gear and racing solo out to the desert, TCV cranked, my birthday can wait.

If you don’t already know about Them Crooked Vultures, check out my previous post on them here.  Josh Homme (Guitar, Vocals), Dave Grohl (Drums), John Paul Jones (Bass, Keys), need I say more?

(Audio Current’s Fear And Loathing in Palm Desert – The Crooked Trip)

‘No One Loves Me & Neither Do I’ is the epic beginning to a flawless album of mind-blowing Rock n’ Roll.  The perfect snappy Grohl beat, cow bell included, and Homme’s creamy toned vocals ride a slow burning train of bluesy riffage.  At about half way Homme finishes a lick with a ‘Huh’ and the song explodes, A colossal riff I could only describe as Led Zeppelin covering Rage Against The Machine, but that doesn’t even do it justice.  This is only one of about 100 moments on the album that make you want to jump up pumping both fists in the air and roaring like King Kong.

‘Elephants’ thunders like a herd of er, Elephants, with Homme firing off a massive riff that Jack White could learn a thing or two from, way past stratospheric!

‘Scumbag Blues’ is Zeppelin all the way, raucous blues rock the way it should be played, a true lesson in blue masterclass by living legends.  Jean Paul Jones hits the keys and holy shit I feel like I’m in the 70′s, bursting with joy.  Heavenly stuff!

*//Purchase

Cool like: Queens Of The Stone Age, Kyuss, Eagles Of Death Metal, Foo Fighters, Probot, Nirvana, Led Zeppelin, The Dead Weather, Desert Sessions, Monotonix, Rage Against The Machine