For Respect

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Total Tracks: 11   Total Length: 37:43

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Relapse Records Radio

By Andrew Parks, Director of Merchandising

To celebrate over 20 years of releasing forward-thinking heavy music, Relapse Records has assembled a monumental playlist featuring over 70 songs from the label's eclectic catalog. From the early days of crushing death/doom metal and blistering grindcore to the present days of whirlwind tech-death, atmospheric sludge, occult rock, progressive instrumental rock and everything in between, Relapse has remained at the forefront of extreme art. Presented in the following mix are tracks from genre leaders Mastodon, Baroness… more »

They Say All Music Guide

Rare is the rock band that can make a strong impression on the listener without the benefit of a vocalist, but Pittsburgh’s Don Caballero comes roaring out of the gate on its debut album. The quartet showcases its instrumental wizardry on the opening title cut, a skull-crushing groove monster that finds evocative drummer Damon Che leading the band through a succession of stop-time breaks. The energy builds for the chaotic dissonance of “Chief Sitting Duck,” then dissipates on the Slint-like dirge of “New Laws,” which shows a subtle mastery of dynamics. Songs like the thundering “Nicked and Liquid,” the heavily distorted “Rocco,” and the psychotic jamming of “Got a Mile, Got a Mile, Got an Inch” (which reveals the origins of the band’s name in an SCTV sketch) reach out and grab you by the cojones, shaking you around like a rag doll without resorting to headbanger clichés. With Midas-touch production from Steve Albini, For Respect is one of the better instrumental rock records of the early ’90s. – Bret Love

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