BEST known for their ground-breaking Trinity Session album, the Junkies have held cult status for a quarter of a century.
To celebrate the milestone anniversary the band is releasing a rapid-fire four-album project called the Nomad Series.
This is number three and guitarist Michael Timmins says the aim this time was to revolve around the psychedelic, blues-inspired forays the band is so fond of on stage.
His free-form meanderings on It’s Heavy Down Here, A Bride’s Price and Hunted sum up how close the band get to their live sound and the result is astonishing, demonic and experimental rock; Think Captain Beefheart meets Neil Young with some seriously overdriven guitar.
Timmins says he tinkered and tweaked with the eight songs until it all got just a little bit louder and a little bit nastier, adding the album is now “more gnarled, grouchy and crotchety in keeping with our age and temperaments”. It’s also a damn fine way to pass 40 minutes.
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