Meanderthal by Torche

One night some months ago we had a dream that one of our favorite bands would be on one of our favorite labels and together would release one of the most satisfying records in the history of forever. And the heavens would part, the Billboard charts would collapse under the sheer sonic awesomeness, and the world would become a better place — a place where everyone had free health care and a money tree in their backyard and a hot trophy wife or strapping young houseboy or whatever. And that band, ladies and gentlemen, was Torche.

And wouldn't you know it, that shit totally came true (we're waiting on the health care, the money tree, the houseboy and the Billboard thing, but still). And that record is Meanderthal. Call it the band's second official full-length (entrusted to us by our good friends at Robotic Empire) and follow-up to last year's six-song mini-epic In Return. Call it the latest and greatest bomb-string stoner pop/thunder rock/doom pop classic from Torche mastermind Steve Brooks and his fellow hook heroes. Call it the sweetest, catchiest, hugest riff colossus since Sky Valley. Shit, call it Album Of The Year if you want. That's what we're going with, anyway.

Tracklist

1.	Triumph of Venus	1:44

2.	Grenades	2:53

3.	Piraña	1:32

4.	Sandstorm	2:20

5.	Speed of the Nail	1:41

6.	Healer	2:08

7.	Across the Shields	3:04

8.	Sundown	3:17

9.	Little Champion	0:35

10.	Without a Sound	2:06

11.	Fat Waves	4:33

12.	Amnesian	6:26

13.	Meanderthal	4:00

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released April 8, 2008

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