It would take a team of NASA scientists to calculate how many hours I've spent playing the Tony Hawk Pro Skater video game franchise. The soundtracks to these games have been consistently awesome. I discovered #fumanchu this way, and in particular the song "evil eye". We have a shared experience if when you hear this song you start searching your surroundings for gaps and floating vhs tapes.
Fu Manchu are masters of the riff. They embrace a '70s stoner muscle car vibe and distill their songs down to bongwater soaked head bobbing monsters. You can throw a rock at their discography and hit a blacktop and weed smelling masterpiece. The songs are catchy and the '70s romanticism pair for great pedal to the metal hard rock that I'm sure those aforementioned NASA scientists could calculate a formula of riff/time saved on the average commute.
This album is probably the best entry point to their collected works. After this they get a little less vintage sounding and the earlier stuff tends to be a little murkier in production. This disc catches them on a high point. But really as far as I'm concerned you can grab any of their albums and enjoy the riffage immensely.
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