Girl Boy Tom - Desert Sessions - Instrumental Driving Music for FelonsDesert sessions are officially (and by officially I mean according to wikipedia) an off shoot amalgam of musicians from along the west coast and south west desert area. In this album and song we have Alfredo Hernandez (Who I like and have listened to in Kyuss, Yawning Man, Che, Queens of the Stone Age and Others) on drums, Dave Catching on bass, and some others who really matter less, except for maybe the guitarist (McBain) who has a semi solo going on somewhere. Anyhow, this is definitely a song that's much more out there, there are basically no lyrics, only wails, and an ever present drive of bass which I really really enjoy. Although it's fairly plain in that it's extremely repetitive it does seem to fit the title "Instrumental Driving Music for Felons" fairly well, as it is for people looking to go nowhere in particular in a fairly fast and driving pace. As Josh Homme was quoted as saying "At Desert Sessions, you play for the sake of music" and that much certainly comes through. This song seems much more like a drug induced jam session with a neat bass line and some nice drum patterns than a really hashed out verse-chorus-verse-chorus-solo-end made for listener song, and in many ways I find that refreshing and in it's own right pretty neat. Add that to a really low big bass sound, and a screaming guitar added on top and that's a pretty nice little song by me. Having a song without a classic pattern (because this song does have a pattern, and a pretty simple crescendo), that in the end isn't really going anywhere, but was recorded just because the musicians thought it sounded kinda cool is in its own way a really valuable thing. No doubt one of the worst song's of the week I've posted but here it is anyway.
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