Name: The Lucky Ones
Brand: Mudhoney

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

spcd765

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Colour

Colour details

Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2008-06-02

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

Total Cap

1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Mudhoney

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

Sub Pop

the vinyl comes with a bonus two track 7" plus a free mp3 code to download the entire album. worldwide lovers of the finer things are rejoicing at the news that mudhoney, yep mudhoney, is back in action in 2008 with 'the lucky ones', the band's eighth full album in a mere 20 years of triumphant rocking. deliberately and aggressively raw, 'the lucky ones' sounds as lean and as full-on as any modern equivalent one cares to mention. recorded in a scant 3.5 days (including overdubs) with tucker martine (who also recorded four songs on the previous album, 'under a billion suns'), mudhoney went in armed with a batch of new material expecting to spend a fair amount of time getting it right. bang - and bang again after some mixing - and a new album was birthed in record time, faster than anything else the band's done to date. the grand majority of these numbers were intentionally written 'from the rhythm up' instead of from the riff and the lyrics down. the effect is to thrust out the bottom-end rumble of drummer dan peters and bassist guy maddison, and to bring about a cohesive whole not entirely ruled by the almighty riff - although you certainly don't have to look hard to find 'em. opening 'the lucky ones', the band defiantly looks twenty years of heaviness and critical hosannas in the eye and spits out the anthemic 'i'm now,' an existential place where 'the past makes no sense, the future looks tense.' finding eager new converts locked firmly in the present who'll agree should not prove difficult.

The Lucky Ones

Music GB