THEM MOOSE RUSH

Don’t Pick Your Noise

TMR

Courageous Croatians hurdle over genre boundaries

Croatia’s Them Moose Rush live up to their nonsensical name, widdling through 45 minutes of White Stripes by way of

Frank Zappa. A seemingly loose, bluesy affair, Don’t Pick Your Noise relies on golden hooks as much as it does improvisation; for every random noise, noodly solo or elongated blues lick there’s the insatiable kick drum in Dumadu Honey or

Stupid Face’s gloriously childish chorus. Nikola Runjavec’s vocals sit in the pockets of Jack White and Robert Plant, really embellishing the moments when Them Moose Rush decide to throw out effortlessly heavy, sludge-worthy riffs.

It’s a sandblasted, bass-laden, wah-pedal-in-your-face affair, and even when it loses focus towards the end – they’re much better at being a prog-tinged rock band than the other way round – it still engages on a level above the ‘You’ve never heard Kyuss, right?’ stuff Royal

Blood dish out.

FOR FANS OF: TURBOWOLF, KYUSS, THE WHITE STRIPES

ALEC CHILLINGWORTH