Italian Punk/Stoner/Psych/Fuzz Rockers FVZZ POPVLI are back with their fourth album “Melting Pop” and it’s even weirder than their previous albums combined. Taking a Garage Rock approach with nods to The Stooges, MC5, Black Sabbath, KYUSS and even The Melvins for this record alone. “Melting Pop” has a schizophrenic delivery with the rebellious vocals and raucous lyrics that contains a freakish 1970’s Punk Rock attitude with a killer modern day Noise Rock attitude.
There actually is a “POP” style melody appearing within the music though it’s being given a twisted and surreal makeover with layers of SONIC and PSYCHEDELIC distortion within the first few tracks of the album Temple Of Doom, Telephone and Salty Biscvits that allows the band to superbly deliver messages of FUCK YOU to the whole MAINSTREAM area of RAWK & ROLL. There is a sense of misguided Punk Rock fun throughout which allows FUZZ POPVLI to deliver a stripped back sound which has been part of their music since their excellent debut album.
Sometimes the lyrics don’t make sense especially on “Salty Biscvits” but you can’t deny how addictive and engaging the whole song actually is especially with the upstart Garage Rock/Noise Rock delivery of the track that gets straight to the point of playing pissed off and highly energetic fast paced sludgy guitars. There’s a deep reliance of some AMPLIFIER REVERB on certain parts of the track.
“Melting Pop” has a twisted sense of humour throughout which comes mostly ito focus on the following tracks of “Erotik Evil Pimp”, “Kommando” and “Ovija“. The music is fast and loose with it’s kinetic Stoner Rock swagger becoming quite dominant without diluting the Garage Rock energy that makes this album so dementedly brilliant and outrageous at times. There’s a classic sound-byte added to “Kommando” which is just the icing on the cake for that track and makes it easily the standout track on the album.
The final two tracks of “Cop Sacher” and “The Knight” allows “Fuzz Popvli” the perfect opportunity to draw this album to a great finish with more sludgy and noise rock based grooves which leaves no stone unturned by delivering a first rate and off-beat record that is thrilling entertainment from start to finish.
As always, we decided to do our own thing. We’re just so over the same old tired riffs and worn-out stoner vibes, like a pair of Birkenstocks at an indie concert, and let’s not even start on those “super interesting” lyrics about how to smoke weed (seriously, tell us more!). So here we are at a crossroad: should we just follow the crowd and do what everyone else is doing, or should we put in the hard work to create something that actually makes us happy while we play it? Well, here’s “Melting Pop!” It’s not stoner, it’s not garage, it’s not punk, it’s not psych, it’s not even a traditional album. It’s melting, a blend of Fvzz Popvli saying “screw the labels” and just going with the flow, all natural, like grownups with no preservatives.”
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