Meanderthal, by Torche

Meanderthal

by Torche

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sm.noise Oh how I love this album! I've played this at work a few times and some of my coworkers have commented on how "It's kinda like the other stuff you listen to only less screaming." Ha! I like to play this album during the last couple of hours of my shift on a Friday and air drum like a mad man. Torche absolutely fucking kills it! Favorite track: Fat Waves.

Mike Steeves Torche is one of the best bands making music today. There is no doubt in my mind that they will go down in history for this album. This band has opened my mind to so many new musical avenues. Can't wait for the new album!

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1.	Triumph of Venus 01:44	buy track
2.	Grenades 02:53	buy track
3.	Piraña 01:31	buy track
4.	Sandstorm 02:19	buy track
5.	Speed of the Nail 01:41	buy track
6.	Healer 02:07	buy track
7.	Across the Shields 03:03	buy track
8.	Sundown 03:17	buy track
9.	Little Champion 00:34	buy track
10.	Without a Sound 02:06	buy track
11.	Fat Waves 04:32	buy track
12.	Amnesian 06:25	buy track
13.	Meanderthal 03:59	buy track

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One night some months ago we had a dream that one of our favorite bands would be on one of our favorite labels and together would release one of the most satisfying records in the history of forever. And the heavens would part, the Billboard charts would collapse under the sheer sonic awesomeness, and the world would become a better place — a place where everyone had free health care and a money tree in their backyard and a hot trophy wife or strapping young houseboy or whatever. And that band, ladies and gentlemen, was Torche.

And wouldn't you know it, that shit totally came true (we're waiting on the health care, the money tree, the houseboy and the Billboard thing, but still). And that record is Meanderthal. Call it the band's second official full-length (entrusted to us by our good friends at Robotic Empire) and follow-up to last year's six-song mini-epic In Return. Call it the latest and greatest bomb-string stoner pop/thunder rock/doom pop classic from Torche mastermind Steve Brooks and his fellow hook heroes. Call it the sweetest, catchiest, hugest riff colossus since Sky Valley. Shit, call it Album Of The Year if you want. That's what we're going with, anyway.

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released April 8, 2008

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HYDRA HEAD RECORDS
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