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| Pitchfork |
 Before getting booted from riff monsters Queens of the Stone Age in 2004, following their breakout Songs for the Deaf, the goateed, often-nude Nick Oliveri was one half of the group's core duo-- alongside frontman Josh Homme, an anchor at the center of a rotating cast of contributors. Oliveri served as the band's sparkplug, counterbalancing Homme's melodic falsetto with his screeching hardcore vocals and adding a degree of batshit craziness to songs like "Tension Head" and "Quick and to the Pointless". Oliveri's absence would take its toll on Queens-- they haven't reached the same heights without him on subsequent records Lullabies to Paralyze and Era Vulgaris.Since that time, Oliveri has played in a slew of bands including the Dwarves and L.A. hard-rock outfit the Knives and continued work on his long-running punk-metal project Mondo Generator, but has remained mostly out of the spotlight by comparison to his ex-bandmembers. (Even lesser known guitarist Dean Fertita has gone on to work with Jack White in the Dead Weather.) Now comes Death Acoustic-- as its title implies, a stripped-down solo album-- featuring a straightforward combination of Oliveri's gutter-punk howl and acoustic-guitar strumming. Despite these simple elements, the album features the same brutality and hostility as his contributions to Queens and other groups, and offers a bleak, sometimes frightening character portrait of Oliveri as an outcast not fit for normal society....full text |
| Stonerrock |
| Whether it was his screams, on-stage nudity or actual bass playing, what Nick Oliveri has always brought to his bands - Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age, Mondo Generator, Moistboyz, and The Dwarves, among others - is intensity. Indeed it’s an intensity much missed from Queens of the Stone Age since his 2004 departure from the band, and an intensity carried over even unto his solo full-length debut, Death Acoustic on Impedance Records. Although it’s mostly covers, the immediacy in Oliveri’s performances of these songs is organic and undeniable. It’s a neat half-hour set, and since it kicks off with Raw Power’s “Start a Fight” and ends with “Outlaw Scumfuc” by G.G. Allin, you know it isn’t going to be your typical sensitive singer-songwriter fare. Oliveri’s solo punk aesthetic manages to keep a sense of anger and spontaneity while being grown up and drugged out at the same time. His composition, “Invisible Like the Sky,” is stylized like “Six Shooter” and every bit as tense, and his version of The Dwarves’ “Dairy Queen,” highlights the fuck-all attitude that is so much a part of that band while giving the song a shot of class (all things relative)....full text |
| Prefixmag |
| Disc 11 Start a Fight 2 Like the Sky 3 Dairy Queen 4 Gonna Leave You 5 Love Has Passed Me By 6 U Blow 7 Hybrid Moments 8 Unless I Can Kill 9 Follow Me 10 Outlaw Scumfuc...full text |
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