Gutbucket: Sludge Test

The name Gutbucket sounds like a horror movie carnage container, and rightfully so. This group has given the Frankenstein treatment to the better aspects of funk, jazz, and rock, then laced these elements with spasmodic horn arrangements that would make Frank Zappa wince. Sludge Test, Gutbucket’s third release, finds the quartet invariably manipulating time signatures and sewing together misplaced keys with a flippant regard for concrete song structure.

Does it work? At times, but the left-field approach often imbibes any cohesion, amounting to a schizophrenic cross-pollination of things known and unknown. Noisy, boisterous and loud, the abstract meanderings do, indeed, shine a glow upon any grooves the band finally settles into. Gutbucket has truly created a monster in Sludge Test, and this creature is far from sane.

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