Amazon.co.uk Review
You know you're on firmly metallic ground when an album's opening track is entitled "Keep The Sabbath Dream Alive", yet on
Sons Of The Pioneers, hallucinogenic-enhanced rock cowboys the Workhouse Movement infuse their fundamental metal traditionalism with a myriad of cross-generic chops to quite excellent effect. "Gimme Some Skin" swaggers with
Red Hot Chili Peppers' funk syncopations, "Zero" paraphrases the "Devil Went Down To Georgia" country clichis of the Charlie Daniels' Band and "Feel Like Bob Marley" doffs its stylistic cap to reggae's immortal prime mover while jazzing itself into an irresistible bebop groove. Elsewhere "Motown" utilises classic Detroit horns and "Charlie Don't Surf" broods with lashings of smouldering vintage violence. Consequently, the Workhouse Movement stand out from the increasingly formulaic American metal crowd because they repeatedly dare to be different, they seamlessly mesh priceless leftfield devices to old school stoner enthusiasm and as a direct result this appropriately entitled debut habitually hits the spot.
--Ian Fortnam
Product Description
Sons of the Pioneers (Enhanced CD) by the Workhorse Movement - 14 tracks:
1. Workhorse + Intercourse
2. Keep the Sabbath dream alive
3. Livin' Evil
4. Gimme some skin
5. Zero
6. Traffic (featuring Esham)
7. Heavy
8. Beotch
9. Motown
10. Joe Mama
11. Charlie don't surf
12. Cosmic highway
13. Mother earth
14. Feel like Bob Marley
- Produced by Santos
- Enhanced CD feat. live performance footage, interviews, photos and more