One of the most anticipated heavy rock records of the year!
Heavy rock titans TORCHE make their Relapse debut with the thunderous ‘Restarter’, a ten song triumph of an album. TORCHE rose to popularity merging huge infectious melodies with downtuned, crushing sludgey rock and on ‘Restarter’ they've perfected the marriage. This is a record that is simultaneously hum-able and heavy that will just as easily appeal to fans of Dinosaur Jr and Sonic Youth as it will Melvins and High On Fire-heads. But what truly sets TORCHE apart from their peers is their ability to use top-notch songwriting and soaring, harmonic vocals to create records that are heavier and louder and hookier than anyone else out there.
“an absolutely killer rock record– one that's likely to appeal to listeners into any stripe of heavy music from the past 20 years.” – Pitchfork
“a true game-changer…swaddled in glorious shimmers, ecstatically joyous guitar work and strange bouts of QOTSA-gone-Jesu abandon that are lush, plush and large enough to warrant their own postcode.” – BBC
“It's metal bowel-busters and pop earworms distilled into a pure font of instant gratification” – Spin
“a muscular barrage of ear-filling power riffs and dogged rhythm that sounds uplifting without being masked in grandiose pretension” – Popmatters
“One of the heaviest, and certainly the catchiest band in the domain of what might be called “metal,”…Torche strap on the jetpack propelled by pos-vibes and bongwater-fusion, and tear through a megalithic landscape of chest hairy riffage, and epic drooling vistas.” – MetalSucks
Recommended if you like:
Queens Of The Stone Age, Baroness, Husker Du, Red Fang, Fugazi, Mastodon,
Mudhoney
