“We ve always been noisemakers. I mean, even in the studio, you know, we ve got so many things to play with. That s how [
The Fickle Finger of Fate, Crover s first solo album] started with the little weird things and this one kind of has the same stuff, but I made them a little bit different,” Crover says over the phone.
Diehard Phoenix fans may recall hearing Crover s band play many of the songs off
The Fickle Finger of Fate when they opened for Redd Kross at Last Exit Live in December 2018. It seems, though, that revisiting the solo world was a foregone conclusion for the Los Angeles-based drummer.
Rat-a-tat-tat, the new album by Dale Crover of Melvins is
DARK. It has songs about dying when you re not ready to die. It has songs about busting up people trying to draw you into high school style drama bullshit. It has totally WHACKED out experimental tracks that sound like something out of Bowie s
Low which were then assigned to a demented computer program. The black grime circulates throughout this bad boy. But, the weird thing is, Dale is a pretty happy-go-lucky kind of guy! Dale has been drumming for the Melvins for almost 40 years now, and he is the boom-bapper of all boom-bappers. He brings the raw power of Bonham