Endless Boogie
Long Island
No Quarter
Four out of five
It’s reasonably
fitting that New York quartet Endless Boogie are signed to the Brooklyn-based
No Quarter – for that’s what they give, their third LP, Long Island, being no
exception. From the opening feedback squall, through eight tracks (only two of
which clock in at under nine minutes long), the Boogie do what they do best,
and that’s deliver the finest drone/stoner rock that exists on this planet
today – no quarter asked, none given.
The Boogie began
as a jam band, just four guys having fun, and it shows in the records they
eventually released. This is very indulgent music, light on vocal, just slow,
grinding guitars, swelling up and down, over a rock solid, constant beat – it
is indeed an endless boogie. The 14-minute The Montgomery Manuscript brings it
all home on Long Island, waxing and waning, a stoner triumph, as is the entire
record, head-nodding jams from heaven.
Samuel J. Fell
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