The Lucky Ones
MUDHONEY
Release Date: May 20
Producer(s): Tucker Martine
Genre: ROCK
Label: Sub Pop
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The Seattle vets follow up 2006's "Under a Billion Suns" with another Sub Pop manifesto, and this one feels like a soundtrack to the recession. With Steve Turner's guitar a buzzing hangover and Mark Arm snarling with irresistibly creepy restraint, Mudhoney's eighth studio album finds the band rocking like it's 1988 . . . or 2008. Arm's "past innocence" ("I'm Now"), he's "had enough" ("And the Shimmering Light"), and he's grappling with the whole "fucked-up gestalt" ("The Lucky Ones"). Hand claps, semi-bluesy basslines, erupting distortion and even the occasional righteous drum solo wriggle through the feel-bad set of 11 "Nuggets"-ready songs to pump $4 gas by. "Inside Out Over You" lurches across keys somewhat awkwardly, but the rest is pure, delicious minor-chord malaise.—Jessica Letkemann


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