BORGO PASS - "Powered By Sludge"
Label: Indie
Release Date: 2001
Reviewed by: Stoner Rock Chick
Posted: Sep 03, 2001
I first caught a listen to Borgo Pass way back when I
was messing around on mp3 searching for good bands. since then I've linked to
their site, but up mp3's occasionally, and added their tunes to my mp3 station
"Stoner Rock Chick's Stoner Rock'. Mp3 is paying off. Its about time that
BORGO PASS were taken seriously. So this review is based on the first listen.
First, they do a lot of funky stuff with the guitar sounds that I dig, being the
guitar-oriented person that I am. The first track, "Meat Wallet" is
semi-eclectic. Its spacey, trippy, and psychedelic with a faster rocking tempo.
They can play! Track 2, "Afterbirth" is a heavy, psychedelic
ballad-like song. Yeah! This is no traditional, weepy tearing ballad. This is a
fast-hitting but sentimentally much challenging song musically. "Saw the
face of God One day". Solid guitar that shines along with the vocals.
This band I would not brand with more traditional stoner rock,. BORGO PASS seem influenced
by Soundgarden and Alice In Chains the whole Seattle thing that seems fresh
again when you have alternatives like indefensible nu-metal and/or
'alternative'. I can see this album very radio friendly. The musicianship is
amazing and the music is very easy to listen to.
This is an album I could throw on at a party and everyone would ask "Hey
who is this, this is cool?"