... You have today as a halfway awake Musikrezepient been many so-called supergroups diverse varieties come see (and sometimes disappear quickly). And regardless of whether they Audioslave, The Good, The Bad & The Queen, Velvet Revolver or The Raconteurs hot - always be illustrious and mostly very talented personnel gathered around an outstanding personality, which serves this purpose as a community staple and minting pretending. Whether Tom Morello, Damon Albarn, Slash or Jack White, everyone expresses his project the stamp of dominance on - follow the leader. At first glance, this also applies to Them Crooked Vultures, the hottest hype of the outgoing year, as there are first of all the Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme of that push here initially in the foreground. But very quickly you realize when listening to this violent and edged chunk that very probably the other two members of this collaboration have contributed their distinct handwriting. Above all, the rough blues rock of Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones are the majority of the songs a pleasantly earthy note - "No One Loves Me ..." or the stiff "Elephants" win so much charm. In "Scumbag Blues", a real rock scraps that playfulness is almost grab three with hands, guitar solos galore and from it. Other pieces in turn are more likely to beat driven Stoner numbers - "Mind Eraser" with his funny horn outro, the first single, "New Fang" or even significantly accelerated "Dead End Friends" and "Gunman". Everything broken, smoothed nothing - with "Warzaw ..." there's towards the end even a rich, almost nine-minute look flawless psychedelic progressive metal - so you can also. In short, this mixture makes a lot more fun than some later QOTSA album, although a mighty roars after an hour of the skull. But the turn was supposed to be expected at a supergroup this cast as a working proof of at least ...
