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Chris Goss is best known as the producer who gave the Kyuss albums 'Welcome to Sky Valley' and '... And the Circus Leaves Town' the neighbour-crushing sound that is still the standard by which all stoner rock albums are measured. He also has his own band, Masters Of Reality, who released a brilliant self-titled debut in 1989 that combined the best of psychedelic rock with straight-up hard rock and which was often compared to Cream. Then it became silent around the band for a long time, until 'Sunrise on the Sufferbus' was released in 1993 with former Cream drummer Ginger Baker in the line-up. Again it got rave reviews, but like its predecessor it didn't sell very well, and a long silence followed again. In the meantime, the band's cult status just grew and grew, even though or maybe because their albums were hard to get because of label problems. In 1997, a live album was released, so the band did still exist, although Ginger Baker had left again. A new album, 'Welcome to the Western Lodge' was finally released in 1999, six years after 'Sunrise on the Sufferbus'. By then, Masters Of Reality were a sort of Chris Goss solo project, only assisted by John Leamy on drums. 'Welcome to the Western Lodge' showed signs of Goss' long cooperation with Josh Homme: The music was basically abstract robot rock as could be found on Queens Of The Stone Age's first record with, as an added bonus, Goss' again brilliant melodies that reallly started to shine through after listening a few times. Again rave reviews followed, but again also no real breakthrough. The album was even unavailable in the US until 2001. And now, after only two years, there is already a new Masters Of Reality record, 'Down in the Hole'. Although of course made with the help of the entire QotSA/Desert Sessions/earthlings? posse, 'Down in the Hole' sounds less similar to QotSA than 'Welcome to the Western Lodge'. It is more of a sort of mix of that album and MoR's debut. The blending of styles means that 'Down in the Hole' sounds like 'Abbey Road' would have sounded like if the Beatles had listened to QotSA's 'Rated R' a lot. The songs have a definite retro 60s feel to them, but have a complete new and instantly recognizable Masters Of Reality sound to them as well. Still, within this very own sound there is a lot of variation: rock of epic proportions like 'Scatagoria', a Beatles-style pop ballad like 'Roof of the Shed' (of which you'd never guess it was co-written by Josh Homme), or a straight-forward rocker like 'High Noon in Amsterdam' (featuring Mark Lanegan). And with all ten songs that great, Goss again releases an album that will only get rave reviews. It's about time people start buying it.
http://www.kindamuzik.net/recensie/masters-of-reality/deep-in-the-hold/1003/
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