Great! Another release from relapse. Filled with expectations I inserted the cd into my player. The first song sounds like an intro. ‘Well ok’, I waited, but the intro lasted for 6 minutes! And when it ended, the next ‘intro’ began. Ok. I took a look at the biography. ‘Too weird to be metal. To everything to be anything’; it says. Well ok, it’s true that they are weird. But that does not mean they are good at what they are doing.

Harvey Milk split up last year, after releasing 3 albums on 3 differend labels (Tumult, Reproductive and Yesha). I don’t feel the need to hear their other albums. This fourth album is a compilation of hard to find songs. Well, I guess they were hard to find cause nobody gave a shit about them.

Normally I like almost everything from Relapse, but this Harvey Milk is just too much.

“for Fans of Isis, 27, Melvins and Neurosis’. Well I like 27, and think Neurosis and Isis are fucking great, but I don’t like Harvey Milk. They combine blues, metal and stoner riffs. Could be a great combination. But not this time. It sounds like they bought a 2-track recorder and recorded this album in the basement of your neighbours. It sounds very ‘underground’, in a negative way. It’s just as if they are stoned and desparate and want to create something. Problem is : they are out of inspiration. It sounds just like that.

Nope. This album won’t see my cd-player again after hearing it a few times (wasted time). Maybe some fanatic Melvins fans like this album, or Relapse-Guerillas who just want to collect everything from the label. But it ends right there.