The Desert Sessions
Desert Sessions, Vol 9 & 10

LA RECENSIONE

Here I am again to review my beloved stoner rock, after creative diversions like Urdury: once again Josh Homme rules!! I am very surprised that this masterpiece of an album has not yet been reviewed.

As many will know, during the desert sessions, god Josh meets up in the desert near Joshua Tree with all the friends he hasn't yet smoked tons of marijuana with, and so, given the brilliant qualities of Our Guy and his friends, true gems are born for the fans' delight. Just think that in 2003 alone Josh appeared on no less than 9 albums, not out of protagonism. End of story.

This time the guests are PJ Harvey on many songs, Dean Ween from Ween, Mark Lanegan (no longer a guest by now), and many others. Especially PJ gives a great performance by perfectly blending her voice into the desert sound: excellent Crawl Home (the first single), with Homme's background vocals that are better than LSD.
Compared to the previous sessions 7 & 8, these are better overall: more stoner, less punk (I have no sympathy for Olivieri's punk digressions), there are fewer 2-minute fillers, ultimately true rock triumphs.
For those who at least want to get an idea, Crawl Home, Dead In Love, In My Head... or Something and Subcutaneus Phat are mandatory. In particular, the latter's intro resembles Mexicola by QOTSA, a song I adore.

To conclude, long live those who still make quality albums and, after releasing a masterpiece like Songs For the Deaf, even while chilling out release another album of great quality.
There are people who take years to then release pathetic albums.
JOSH I LOVE YOU SO