The Muggs are still the self-proclaimed "ugliest band in the world," and they're damn proud of it. It would appear as if a proudly ugly band compensates with a gloriously beautiful sound. While vocalist Danny Methric sounds uncannily like Axl Rose, and while you'll spend a few minutes scanning the liner notes for Jimmy Page's name, the band devises a character all its own by throwing down that for-the-love-of-the-music garage sound for which Detroit is famous. Each song delivers pounding hard-rock riffs, immaculate blues underpinnings, and superb percussion from Matt Rost, with "'Monster'" and "Should've Learned My Lesson" emerging the indisputable winners. The Muggs is capped off with "Doc Mode," a seven-minute-plus epic memorable (much like the album's 10 other songs) for a guitar solo in which you'll become blissfully lost.The Muggs disappoints in variety. At nearly 50 minutes, the record offers very little outside of its simple and pure roots - roots that are enjoyable, yet stylistically restrictive. One might pick the nit that the instrumental "Underway" would be better served as a mid-album intermission than a final-stretch decrescendo, but when one starts complaining about track order, it becomes obvious that there isn't all that much to complain about. Fans of blues-rock: Get to jammin'… The Muggs are the real deal.
TRACKLIST:
1 Need Ya Baby
2 Gonna Need My Help
3 Rollin' B-side Blues
4 Monster
5 Should've Learned My Lesson
6 White Boy Blues
7 Hard Love
8 Said & Done
9 Underway
10 If You Please
11 Doc Mode
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