Description
Again recorded in the company of producer Nick Launay, Grinderman 2 is a more polished and studied affair than its predecessor, but it’s a more sonically adventurous, white-hot rock & roll record. The opening, “Mickey Mouse and the Goodbye Man,” comes closest to the songs on the previous album, but feels like it comes by way of Patti Smith’s “Radio Ethiopia,” Howlin’ Wolf, and the Scientists. It’s pure scummy, sleazy, in-the-red dissonant rock. With its expansive textural and atmospheric palette, and deliberately studied dynamic bombast, Grinderman 2 still contains an overdose of rock and roll adrenaline and is drenched in comic sleaze, but it also sounds like a new, more experimental direction for the band more than it does a continuation of its predecessor.
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