Reviews : Albums : Truckfighters, "Gravity X"

Sweden’s Truckfighters mix ten tons of guitar fuzz with catchy rhythms and a bit of silliness to create a stoner rock debut that is brimming with smooth. Their disc, Gravity X is a bold 67-minutes of amped-up, distorted desert rock that fearlessly ventures into the epic as often as it dabbles in the more aggressive drugged-out weirdness that’s recently become so popular thanks to Queens of the Stone Age. The material comes off sounding like a very competent amalgamation of Kyuss and QOTSA but with distinctive Swedish-stoner guitar riffs that continually remind me of Astroqueen’s killer Into Submission album.

Whether you’re being lulled to sleep with the gentle, hypnotic “Momentum,” being plowed under by the bass heavy drone of “The Deal,” or simply banging your head to the huge groove of “Desert Cruiser,” it’s impossible to deny that Truckfighters have got the cards stacked in their favor already. Gravity X is an album that will work for you regardless of if you’re sitting at home staring at the wall or driving 90 mph on the freeway. It’s versatile, it’s full of fuzz, and for all the classy influences that are apparent on the disc, Truckfighters have still managed to make it sound like something all their own.

Standout Tracks    Desert Cruiser    Manhattan Project    Momentum    Gweedo-Weedo

Peter Johnston