{"product_id":"melvins-houdini","title":"Houdini","description":"Melvins: King Buzzo (vocals, guitar); Dale (vocals, drums); Lorax (bass).\nAdditional personnel: Kurt Cobain (guitar, percussion); Bill Bartell (guitar, bass); Billy Anderson (bass); Al Smith, Mike Supple (percussion).\nRecorded at Brilliant Studios and Razor's Edge, San Francisco, California; Laundry Room, Seattle, Washington.\nPersonnel: King Buzzo (vocals, guitar); Dale Crover (vocals, drums); Kurt Cobain (guitar, percussion); Mike Supple, Al Smith (percussion).\nAudio Mixers: Garth Richardson; Kurt Cobain; Melvins; Billy Anderson .\nRecording information: Brilliant Studios, San Francisco, CA; Laundry Room, Seattle, WA; Razor's Edge, San Francisco, CA.\nPhotographer: Wild Don Lewis .\nTo essay a concise, surefooted summation of the Melvins' catalog would be reductive at best, and laughable at worst. This is, of course, underground rock's trio of pranksters -- unpredictable and capable of complete musical about-faces in the turn of a measure. That said, Houdini is about as close as one gets to a representative Melvins album, and it vividly captures the band's unreconstructed power, vision, and musical strangeness. During the early-'90s purge of hair rock and candy-footed funk metal, the Melvins, as with many other acts, seemed fair game for a major label in search of another post-Nirvana gold mine. With Kurt Cobain's assistance, the band was snatched up -- and summarily dropped (after three brilliant albums, this being the first) -- by Atlantic. Though Houdini's immediate predecessors, Eggnog and Bullhead, pried open a few screwball chasms in the Melvins' syrupy distillation of Sabbath riffage and Flipper's noisy anti-punk, it was this album that displayed the full fruition of the outfit's sonic breadth, from the cough-syrup river drag of \"Night Goat\" to the revved-up \"Honey Bucket,\" and from the creepy \"Joan of Arc\" to the glue-damaged \"Sky Pup.\" Ringleader King Buzzo's riffs are stretched -- taffy-like -- to meltdown, and at other times they are razor sharp. Either way, they abound with a lumbering, lurching power. With their voluminous output and determination to continuously expand their sound regardless of musical trends, the Melvins oeuvre has begun to rival -- at least on paper -- the career arcs of Frank Zappa and Neil Young. ~ Patrick Kennedy","brand":"Melvins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44589245530345,"sku":"6TEBF3-PQQ9-00","price":20.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0654\/3523\/8633\/files\/melvins-houdini_V3b59.jpg?v=1759318064","url":"https:\/\/www.vibinvinyl.com\/products\/melvins-houdini","provider":"Vibin' Vinyl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}