i’ve got a feeling my traffic will increase ’cause of this one.
rob crow would make an excellent candidate to succeed mike patton’s title of “hardest working man in music,” as juggling numerous projects and ideas at once seems to be his calling. unlike patton though, crow is not nearly as versatile a performer and while his obvious enjoyment of expressing himself through different genres is evident, someone should tell crow to stick what he does best. come with me if you want to live is crow’s second outing with goblin cock, an unfortunate jokey-metal band with an even more unfortunate name. although crow’s vocals might be part of the ‘joke’ aspect of this act, they sound really out of place, and ironically, they’re also the only aspect of goblin cock that distinguishes it from being just an apish metal mockery. the music itself is a banal take on sludge/doom metal, like baroness-lite, that often toys with melody. when the melodies shine through the murk, like on “we’ve got a bleeder” goblin cock are at their best, but that’s also when they sound more like crow’s other projects (namely pinback) than a distinct band. it is cool to hear crow sing over heavier music (with heavy being a very relative term here), but such a pleasure isn’t something that metal enthusiasts will share. even dave grohl had the good judgement to not sing on his own metal album— although he was entirely capable of doing so— he opted instead to enlist the help of others so that probot would be taken a bit more seriously than just a ‘heavier foo fighters.’ this ‘heavier pinback’ fails on both accounts of humour and originality and is really only for people who follow rob crow from one project to the next.
Filed under: Album Review , 2009, come with me if you want to live, goblin cock, rob crow
