Mastodon - Hushed and GrimMastodon release their anxiously awaited ninth full length album, Hushed and Grim, via Reprise Records. Over the past year, the group recorded Hushed and Grim in their hometown, collaborating with producer David Bottrill [Tool, Rush, Muse, Peter Gabriel] behind the board. As their most ambitious body of work to date, it consists of 15 tracks, surveying sonic landscapes of rock, psychedelia, punk, metal, alternative, and prog threaded together by the

This album has the sounds of a jukebox in the most kick-arse bar in Texas

claustrophobic songs of love

activist and orator

DJ Premier

I've learned that no matter how escapist

but they make things happen

Johnny Hodges Going Out The Back Way 21

It's about how easily vanity can take precedence over the greater good

documented in raw

"Les Cassettes 1980-1983" presents a selection of their finest pieces from this period

this militant gang of leftist radical politicos from Bristol specialised in a funk-driven cacophony of sound that was abrasive

2015‰۪s In The Pink Of Condition) was recorded at Samur Khouja‰۪s Seahorse Sound studio in Los Angeles with all the lyrics written and then vocals recorded in Narberth in west Wales