Imagine Black Sabbath were only now getting around to inventing metal. Would it be the same? Well, no, that’s a stupid question. Don’t even dignify it with an answer. This clumsy visualisation exists only so that I can seamlessly draw your attention to Kinski, who, on their third full-length album for Sub Pop, sound a bit Sabbath-y. That same sludgy guitar sound carries their riffs out of the speakers and songs like Argentina Turner and Child Had To Catch A Train capture a certain seventies spirit, but this is not the seventies and Kinski are not trying to revive anything.

Chris Martin’s occasional deadpan vocal brings to mind Aerogramme, or maybe Mogwai, and their lengthy instrumentals certainly push them towards the post-rock set. But even then, you’re a way off. And I haven’t even mentioned Mudhoney yet. No, this is music to be accepted on its own terms, just as it has already accepted forty years of rock history into its soul without prejudice.

Label: Sub Pop
Website: www.kinski.net
Release date: 20th August 2007

Tracklist:

1. Crybaby Blowout
2. Passwords & Alcohol
3. Dayroom At Narita Int’l
4. Boy, Was I Mad!
5. Argentina Turner
6. Child Had To Catch A Train
7. Plan, Steal, Drive
8. Punching Goodbye Out Front
9. Silent Biker Type