Search - Mudhoney :: Piece of Cake

Excellent

Christopher Bushman | Portland, OR USA | 03/04/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Mudhoney delivered the goods on their major label debut. I love Make It Now and No End In Sight but the whole record rocks relentlessly. Acetone is a stylistic left turn but always sticks with me too."

Abrasive rock

David Bonesteel | Fresno, CA United States | 05/29/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Mudhoney was doing grunge before it became cool, and there are a lot of good tracks here. It took some time for this disk to grow on me, but grow it did. I can't compare it to their other releases since I haven't heard any of them. Tunes such as "Make It Now," "No End in Sight," and "Ritzville" rock hard until the slow, mournful final track, "Acetone." Good stuff."

Grunge deluxe

braincoat | Zürich | 05/15/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"If anybody asked me what exactly 'grunge music' sounded like, this is the record I'd play. Mudhoney were there from the very beginning and stood somewhere between Seattle's trashy underground and it's more popular bands. Grunge is about initially wanting to play the cool sounds you love to listen to but realizing that you're not really able to. Or, at least, about being too lazy to keep trying. It's produced by self-proclaimed losers who start to rape musical ideas. You'll find that in perfection on 'Piece of Cake': Noisy lo-fi-songs, nosy lo-fi-vocals and fuzzy guitars, creating some sort of 'garage-rock'n'roll'. They don't use any style-corset. It is what it is. Loud and dirty, but honest. One might call it 'Seattle Soul'. And on this album, Mudhoney found the right mix of fast and slower songs, with a few funny suckerpunches at other music styles, and no filler material. It's their best one."