About seven years ago now, I first heard of the band Transport League. It was in the infamous Large magazine that I read a review of their new album ‘Stallion Showcase`, and I was slightly interested, for who would choose such an odd band name and what could one expect of their sound. I never made inquiries about the band since then, and when this album was in the offing I thought I’d correct that mistake. That turned out to be a pretty great idea.

The band, formed in the town of Partille, Sweden in 1994 -at the time as a side-project to B-Thong- and has released three albums prior to Multiple Organ Harvest. They have undergone various line-up changes and for this album only singer/leadguitarist and main founder of Transport League, Tony Jelencovich, was left. Three new guys were brought in to fill the void and they do very well. Usually rotating line-ups tend to infect the sound of a band, but Jelencovich was always the one with almost all the input in the songs (as the web-site tells me), so in this case that wasn’t such a problem.

Multiple Organ Harvest is quite aggressive, hard and heavy-riffed, without forgetting the importance of melodic breaks. And it are those melodic breaks that really tie the music together and make the sound full and complete. In sound and quality this album is comparable to Skinlab, Vision Of Disorder’s ‘From bliss to devastation’ and a bit to earlier Machinehead.

The vocals I find to be awesome. Tony J.J. has no problem screaming and grunting ‘Skinlab-style’, but he can also sing in a different, normal way, without losing an inch of the music’s intensity. Lyrically everything sounds great, I mostly don’t know what he means, but, hell, it all sounds great and the rest I just make up out of my own interpretation slash imagination.

The production of this album is also really good. It’s a bit echoey (I am slowly developing my own private language), but it sounds very well indeed. Instrumentally, everything sounds damn good. The riffing is quite diverse, something you doubt at first, but start to notice after listening to it two, or three times and onwards from there. The melodic touches in various songs are impressive, listen two ‘Lobotomico’ and ‘El Gordo’, to precisely know what I mean. Well… It is just pretty fucking hard to find downsides to Transport League’s ‘Multiple Organ Harvest’, but if I had to name one, it would be that the music isn’t that original (with the emphasis on `that`). However this is not a problem at all, for the sheer quality makes up for this (very) minor flaw.

A really, really good way to spend part of your next paycheck.