Black Elk
Always A Six Never A Nine

Crucial Blast. A label, a guarantee.

A guarantee of satisfying sound-bludgeoning, occasionally of systematic migraine. "Always A Six Never A Nine" does not disappoint, second release by the raucous Black Elk, angry rockers with eardrum-shattering base in Portland.

Equally divided between massive noise assaults of the AmpRep school ("My Last Shred Of Decency", "Hold My Hand") and solid SubPop first-wave progressions ("She Pulled Machete"), mixed with well-camouflaged metallic scraps ("Pig Crazy", "Brine"), they are appreciated without necessarily invoking a miracle.

For that (apparently) Bonolis already took care of it.

UH!