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Onko kukaan muu tutustunut tähän kovaan New Yorkilais -pumppuun?
 
Puny Human vääntää tiukasti groovaavaa riffipainotteista hard rockia / stoner rockia 70 luvun hengessä. Bändi koostuu tuntemattomista äijänretaleista nimeltään Josh Diamond (kitara), Jason Diamond (basso), Jim Starace (laulu) ja MTV:ltä tutusta juontajasta Iann Robinsonista (rummut), tosin jälkimmäisen on ainakin bändin myspace -sivuston mukaan korvannut John Bongiorno. Soittoryhmästä ei ainakaan omaan korvaan erotu mitenkään übervirtuoosimaisia muusikoita mutta sen verran letkeässä yhteishengessä soitetaan että kyseinen aspekti jää taka-alalle. Laulaja Jim Staracen äänessä on paikoin sellaista rehellistä rosoisuutta josta jää hyvä mieli kuuntelijalle.
 
Itse olen ollut tietoinen bändistä nyt noin kahden vuoden ajan, ja molemmat julkaisemansa levyt ovat kulkeutuneet ajan oloon hyllyä koristamaan. Orkesterilla on levytyssopimus Detroitilaisen Small Stone Recordingsin kanssa, jonka listoilla on mm. sellaisia suuruuksia kuin Dozer ja Los Natas.
 
Ensimmäisestä levystä, Revenge Is Easy, on mm. ollut tämmöistä sanottavaa:
Cool, what I hear is music I would throw into one bucket with Alabama Thunder Pussy or Candybar Planet. 10 dirty, dusty and fuzzy stoner rock tracks. Hell, this is very heavy riffing, stomping stuff. Sometimes almost comparable with Awesome Machine's sound. Very strong, energy soaked vocals underline the brainsticking rhythm. The songs keep flowing into each other and one highlight is followed by the next one. This one will surely become an all-time favorite. I just couldn't stop playing it again and again. And as a special present you will find a hidden bonus track: a cover version of Aerosmith's "Rock In A Hard Place"..- this CD burns!!
 
So much ass to kick, so little time. Running a mid-tempo sludge inflected boogie dagger through classic hard edged arena rock, (as it rode the metal/hard rock devide of '74) and pouring the copious amount of richly nutrious blood into a bottle labeled "For Wild Club Action, Transfuse Weekly" allows for much positive rock action. Time it right and as you hit the end of the beer, the end of the road and the end of the tape you'll be ready for the trip home and the whole disc proper, 'cause its a good one.
 
Toinen levy It's Not the Heat It's the Humanity on kerännyt ylistäviä arvosteluja:
Well its time for another blast from Small Stone Records and this time its the sophomore disc from a little powder keg of a band called Puny Human. I first heard the band on Small Stones SUCKING THE 70S compilation where they covered Travellin Band. Trust me; its a great cover of a great song. So when Small Stone sent me this album I was excited to hear it, and believe me, I havent been disappointed!
To say the least, Puny Human seems obsessed with 70s culture, especially the B-Movie part of it. The album cover and booklet are rife with images that just scream of small budget flicks, giving the whole thing a very cool, fresh atmosphere. The music is equally impressive, the band rocking out like its 1973 all over again, fuzzed out, brains addled by home-cooked chemistry, hot pants babes on the screen, car crashes and gun blazes, no end in sight. If that sounds like fun to you, stop reading now and go order this album.
Still need convincing? OK, fine. Champagne Minivan is the electric boogie that will have you bangin your head and shakin your ass, Jim Starace hollering about mobile parties and the dangers thereof. The Ox sports a bass groove so deep it makes Geezer Butler circa Paranoid wish he played it. Beyond that, well, its another 8 tracks of pure stoned euphoria.
This is just a damn good, damn fun album that makes no compunctions about wanting to do one thing: rock. Pick it up, strap it on, and let the fireworks commence.
 
Puny Human have a high energy sound that just pummels you with one rock and roll heavy ass riff after riff from the beginning right through the end of thisone. The riffs are busy all the way from the top with tons of changes but mostly straight forward head banging goodness from the get go.
Puny Human have been around for a while, I remember reviewing their debut release "Revenge is Easy" a while back and don't remember the material being quite as punishing as this latest release. The tunes have lots of changes within the songs but more of the riff/directional kind of change rather than totally throwing you off with some technical math stuff. It's all pretty fist throwing and doesn't really confuse you, although some of the changes are technically difficult. The guitars are nicely overdriven, the drums are rock solid (Ian Robinson from MTV News is on the kit slamming out the goodness) and the vocals are very melodic and strong, and get nice and gritty at the right times.
Musically it's a strange combination of a lot of styles, good ol' rock and roll with newer twists..down and dirty tuned down heavy doom tinged sludge riffs and enough changes to keep those attention deficit minds occupied listen after listen with part after layered part that seems to get missed the listen before..there is a lot to this record to ingest upon only one listen and that is for sure.
A lot of this stuff reminds me of a more rock and roll Helmet, there are a lot of cool little loop riffs that remind me of Helmet quite a bit, and the overall timing of a lot of the rhythms. The guitars have tons of tastefully done leads and one off parts that really make the overall vibe of this CD quite interesting.
If you dig hard rock, heavy rock, punk rock, indie rock or just rock in general, check out Puny Human. They have a pretty good handle on what rocking is all about and their sound is a lot more unique than the millions of stoner rock band wagon jumpers out there these days.
 
Bändi on ulostamassa kolmatta levyä helmikuun loppupuolella, ja ainakin allekirjoittanut on tulevasta materiaalista helvetin innoissaan koska jos trendi on sama ja äijien omiin sanomisiin on luottamista, biisientekemisen hyvyys on levyjen välillä noussut taas kymmenenteen potenssiin. Bändin myspace sivustolla on kuultavissa pari rallia tuolta jälkimmäiseltä levyltä, joku biisi jonka julkaisusta minulla ei ole mitään havaintoa, ja erinomainen coveri The Osmondsin Crazy Horsesista. Bändin omilla kotisivuilla (joita ei ole päivitetty yli vuoteen) on videoita ja muutamia biisejä imutettavissa.
 
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