Dope Smoker - Vol​.​4

“Vol. 4”, as the title suggests is the fourth album from Dope Smoker, a Wales-based three-piece group that plays a blend of doom, stoner, sludge, psychedelic rock and a few other subgenres involving distortion pedals.

Let me just point out that this is their fourth album released in just two years, so basically they have been releasing a new album every six months, which is something that might explain why “Vol. 4” is just a weak and uninteresting collection of songs based around rudimentary riffs. Perhaps it would it more advantageous for Dope Smoker to invest more time on the songwriting and maybe release a new effort once a year or every two years than just record every riff and ideas and came up at the rehearsal room without much care for arrangements or details.
I know great ideas and killer riffs can sometimes emerge from spontaneous moments of inspiration but they often require some additional work, either in studio or the rehearsal room.

Anyway, if the sound of an infant Nirvana dabbling with some Melvins and Sabbath riffs sounds appealing to you, then be my guest and check out “Vol. 4”, but don’t go expecting anything that surprising or even interesting.

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