| ASTROQUEEN Into Submission (Pavement) Can you smell that? It's burning fuzz. Astroqueen has picked up the ball that was carried by Spiritual Beggars and The Mushroom River Band and shown that European acts can do stoner rock better than any band out of North America at the moment (save, perhaps, Sea Of Green). The 70s just drips straight out of this release, saturating your speakers with glorious amounts of groove and splendiferous, scintillating chunky riffs. It almost sounds like Astroqueen went the old Monster Magnet route and recorded Into Submission with old tube equipment - it sounds that vintage. Definitely inspirational for phatty-rolling, and certainly as combustible as any smoke product out there. Astroqueen will take you as high as the stars, if you let them. Unrestrained Magazine - A. Ristic = 9/10 |