Melvins Ozma LP Vinyl

Available again with updated artwork and a new gatefold sleeve! Ozma was recorded soon after Melvins made the move from Washington to San Francisco, and was their first release to include the diminutive yet mighty Lorax (Lori Temple Black) on bass. In fact, the first sound one hears at the album's opening is Lori standing on her tiptoes to switch on her amp, thereby warning the listener of the onslaught to come. Distorted, down-tuned doom riffs start, stop, lurch sideways with no warning, and seem to end before they start. Buzz Osborne adds extraneous guitar static and vocal squeals. Drummer Dale Crover plays as if he's inside a barrel going over Niagara Falls; the long, slow fall allows the space between beats to grow and grow until he crashes into the water with the vessel blasting apart in an explosion of drum rolls. The classic Melvins heavy grind is set up and broken up by assorted odd sidetracks: "Revulsion / We Reach" flows forward slower and slower until it eventually melts into a gooey feedback drone. "Raise a Paw" is a superball paddled against one's head by a grinning village idiot. "Love Thing" enlists in the Kiss Army before getting dishonorably discharged.

1. Vile 2. Oven 3. At a Glance 4. Let God Be Your Gardener 5. Creepy Smell 6. Kool Legged 7. Green Honey 8. Agonizer 9. Raise a Paw 10. Love Thing 11. Ever Since My Accident 12. Revulsion/We Reach 13. Dead Dressed 14. Cranky Messiah 15. Claude 16. My Small Percent Shows Most 17. Candy-O 18. Eye Flys 19. Echo Head/Don't Piece Me 20. Heater Moves and Eyes 21. Steve Instant Newman 22. Influence of Atmosphere 23. Exact Paperbacks 24. Happy Grey or Black 25. Leeech 26. Glow God 27. Big As a Mountain 28. Heaviness of the Load 29. Flex with You 30. Bitten Into Sympathy 31. Gluey Porch Treatments 32. Clipping Roses 33. As Was It/Over from Under the Excrement