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Welcome back the kings of Stoner Rock!

AC | 03/25/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"In the post-Kyuss world of Stoner Rock, it doesn't seem like any band is capable of the epic songs anymore. Monster Magnet and Fu Manchu, 2 flagbearers of this genre, have tried to sell out(IMHO) with their last albums respectively. Unfortunately both failed to sell as many as they probably hoped for.Now Dave Wyndorf and the band come back with a true rockin' record. What's most pleasing to see is that this album flows from one song to the next, something God Says No and Powertrip failed to do. They're also bringing back some of the less-produced keyboard loop sounds from the Tab EP of almost a decade ago. There are definitely hints of Superjudge and Dopes To Infinity on this record too. There are not many bands out there that deserve to truly make some big money.. Monster Magnet is one of them. For more than a decade they've stuck to their own brand of spaced-out, power-riff madness influenced by psychadelia. Dave Wyndorf is one amazing songwriter who also pioneered the CD-ROM/DVD stuff before other bands got onto it. Ed Mundell is one of the juicest guitarists around(just listen to Atomic Bitchwax), and the drumming in Monster Magnet has always been excellent. For 2 albums they lost their way making commercial music while touring with the likes of Marilyn Manson and Slipknot(?).. but this time THEY ARE DEFINITELY BACK!! 4.5 stars from me.. but 5 out of 5 due to the fact that they've gone back to their roots. I hope this is the album that finally gets Monster Magnet to the star status they deserve.. Dave Wyndorf is the world's biggest rockstar who's not a big-time rockstar yet.. maybe this is the time."

Dope Music

John Gabriel | Rahway, NJ | 08/27/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Monolithic Baby, the latest rock effort by southern New Jersey's Monster Magnet, sprung out of a random singularity that unraveled in the wispy fabric of space. It was born of a cyclopian rock-god dog-tired of puerile wailings layered over commerci-pop riffs. Monolithic Baby sprouted out of a meteorite that innocuously planted itself in a tract of Bruce Springsteen's backyard farmland in Colt's Neck. And Dave Wyndorf, the story goes, cloaked in dark garb, gained possession of this alien growth under shady, possibly criminal circumstances. And he heaved the monolithic spacerock into the sky. This tumbling mass bucked gravity and escaped the atmosphere's outer skin and inexplicably, Monolithic Baby reversed course and pierced again the exosphere on May 25th, 2004 and clobbered the North American continent with a Nagasaki-sized wollop. Monolithic Baby is pure metal wrapped inside a white-evil husk, set upon a plinth in Satan's museum of inspired artifacts. And Monolith Baby is more than that. It's the kind of album that you can leave spinning in your CD player at a listening volume at magnet midnight, and you can go to bed to it, and splay out your limbs in an X-marks-this-landing-pad-for-Wyndorf's-mindsplash, and saunter into your dreams drugged on the arresting sound of genuine, legitimate hard rock. So buy this freaking album if you need a transmutation of soul. Or if this age of terror and over-consumption got you down. Or if you just want to dream again."

The best rock album of 2004 [which most people won't hear]

Javdoctor | Warren, NJ | 09/21/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"As the Monster Magnet website declares: Rock Is Alive! Aside from MM and a few others, I can't think of too many bands who can make that claim these days. With all the sound-alike down-tuned no-solo "rock" out there these days, Monolithic Baby! is a welcome return to old-school hard rock. It is just a great hard-rocking, wacky, fun listen, with all the good stuff you expect from Magnet: pounding rhythm section, overdriven guitars, and some shredding solos, capped off by Dave Wyndorf's wacky view of the world. Definitely not as psychedelic as Spine Of God or even Dopes To Infinity, but overall, I think this is arguably their best work to date.



My song picks: Supercruel, Radiation Day, Monolithic and Master Of Light."