ARTIST: Mudhoney
TITLE: Under A Billion Suns
LABEL: Sub Pop
GENRE: Rock
BITRATE: 234kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 44min total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-03-07
RIP DATE: 2006-02-18

Track List

01. Where Is The Future             5:38
02. It Is Us                        3:28
03. I Saw The Light                 2:23
04. Endless Yesterday               4:02
05. Empty Shells                    2:38
06. Hard-On For War                 3:57
07. A Brief Celebration Of          2:06
Indifference
08. Let's Drop In                   4:40
09. On The Move                     4:46
10. In Search Of                    5:02
11. Blindspots                      5:37

Release Notes:

Mudhoney is a four-piece rock group from the old, weird Seattle. For 18 years
they have plugged into wall sockets all over the world, proving to be one of the
most consistently electrifying acts to survive the grunge implosion, whatever
that was. The wolfish howls of singer Mark Arm, soulful splatterings of
guitarist Steve Turner and frenzied fills of drummer Dan Peters have produced 9
albums to date, most of which are considered neo-garage classics. In addition,
they have had two bassists over the years, Matt Lukin, who retired in 1999,
later replaced by the inimitable Australian Guy Maddison. Under a Billion Suns
is the band’s new long-player and it’s performed with the same amplified urgency
of their previous work. While history has shown musicians to be a largely
unreliable lot, Mudhoney has never swayed in its vision of making really loud
rock music and this album is no exception. Produced with the help of three
notable knobsters (Phil Ek, Johnny Sangster, Tucker Martine) and boasting a
blaring horn section, Under a Billion Suns exposes a more snidely
political-fueled side to our shaggy heroes, but one revealed through the
invariables of the Mudhoney recipe: thick, soggy punk riffs and underrated
guitar dynamics, psychedelic tangents and snot-nosed finger-pointing. It is
loud, it is fierce, and it is here for our world right now. Lucky for us, so is
Mudhoney.