THE TUSSLER

Who knew? Apparently Motorpsycho is not only Norway's top grungy alternative rock and heavy psychedelic prog band, but its finest retro country export as well. Recorded in the midst of their early grunge phase (with additional musicians to the core of Saether/Ryan/Gephardt), it doesn't yet approach the country/pop/rock perfection of the much later International Tussler Society album, but its a start. For an album that was probably conceived in the kitchen room (where Soviet rock was proudly born as well!), its sounds full-bodied in its instrumentation, with pedal steel, guitars, banjo, piano and the occasional yee-haw! all coming out nicely, if not exactly loudly, in the mix.