BLOOD MERIDIAN - Kick Up The Dust reviews
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| TimeOut |
Any record that sits the line ‘let’s drink, let’s cuss, let’s fight and let’s fuck’ in a stew of dusty, soulful and gruesome Americana is well worth the admission. Recalling the Meat Puppets, Nick Cave’s recent foray into gospel and Brian Jonestown Massacre if they could feel pain through all the drugs, these Canucks refract olde country and blues through a lysergic, angry and gloomy alt.rock. However beat they get, you know Blood Meridian are always good for a whiskey, a scrap and a fumble....full text |
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| Dotmusic |
| "None more black," as Spinal Tap's gormless Nigel Tuffnell famously had it - and Vancouver's Matthew Camirand could hardly disagree. The former member of cultish rockers The Black Halos currently plays bass for awesome psych rockers Black Mountain, but has temporarily abandoned his duties to sing with his own Blood Meridian project, alongside Black Mountain drummer Joshua Wells and guitarist Jeff Lee (of Black Dice), plus others. Add the borrowing of his band's name from the Cormac McCarthy novel and Camirand's mission statement - "sometimes you might have to say sh*t that someone might not wanna hear" - and it's small wonder Blood Meridian have fetched up in the heart of darkness....full text |
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| PitchFork |
| I haven't read Blood Meridian, the novel by Cormac McCarthy, but it's said to be violent and western. Blood Meridian's Kick Up the Dust is plenty western, a little violent, and full of hardscrabble big-sky anthems captured in shimmering clarity. Smart money blows the whistle here: This is reference porn at its most full-frontal. What's more, McCarthy's grisly tale isn't even the only BM the band name channels....full text |
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