Monster Magnet

A Better Dystopia

NAPALM It’s a covers album, but you probably won’t notice.

Monster Magnet mainman Dave Wyndorf spent the pandemic doing the same as most of us did – pining for the good ol’ days. Naturally, he did it louder and flashier than the rest of us, and the results are the band’s first covers album.

One of rock’n’roll’s greatest cultural anthropologists, Wyndorf chose to avoid easy targets and instead dug deep into his dusty crates for protometal nuggets like Poobah’s Mr. Destroyer and Dust’s Learning To Die to revamp. It’s a testament to his unrelenting vision that they both sound essentially like Monster Magnet songs. In fact the whole album does, really. Which is remarkable, given that Hawkwind and The Scientists – both of whom are covered here in majestic fashion – sound nothing alike on any other day. Ignore the fact that most of these songs are 50 years old and you’ve got the best new Monster Magnet album since 2001’s God Says No. ■■■■■■■■■■ Sleazegrinder