Grey Mouse - Animalism (Full Album 2014)

Buy • Listen --- With each new album, the Moscow-based band Grey Mouse change both their sound and line-ups. For instance, their previous album “Trip” featured a sitar player, and on the next one (“Animalism”), there are two, but at the same time, the “full-time” guitarist disappeared from the line-up, and all the guitar parts were recorded by guest musicians. It would be wrong to think, though, that Grey Mouse changed their sound to some meditative ethno-psychedelic kind of thing. On the contrary, “Animalism” is a loud and aggressive rock album. On this record, the band took a turn in the direction of garage hard rock, stoner and maybe even grunge. The sitars provide some flavor, but fuzzy guitars giving out occasional rough-sounding solos are still the main dish here. And there’s some low-tempo harmonica-fronted blues rock too. The songs are mostly rather short, and this time they even show glimpses of hit songwriting – t