Search - Fudge Tunnel :: Hate Songs in E Minor

Good times, great oldies: Fudge Tunnel's first movement

Stargrazer | deep in the heart of Michigan | 11/06/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"When this came out, the sludgy versions of "Cat Scratch Fever" and "Sunshine of Your Love" attracted me enough to buy it. Now I've nearly forgotten about those two songs -- the rest of the disc is great dirge-y noise rock, lightyears ahead of most of its contemporaries. And nothing at all like its fellow British rock of the day. There is a swagger to these slow-spun riffs that belies any UK origins. And an underlying sense of momentum and swelling intensity that makes the album anything but "slow."



Later albums seemed to move closer and closer to a conventional hardcore metal sound, but "Hate Songs" bears more resemblance to what came from the Melvins camp around the start of the nineties.



What's Alex Newport up to these days?"