Tee Pee Tuesday: The Atomic Bitchwax
The best free track we’ve given away? This awesome 70s-style rocker is 2 clicks away! Click here for previous Tracks Of The Day.
Words: Scott Rowley
10 years on from their 1999 debut album, there’s no excuse for never having heard The Atomic Bitchwax before now.
Monster Magnet fans know them best as the one-time side project of MM guitarist Ed Mundell. Mundell fronted the band until 2002, releasing two studio albums and an odds-and-sods collection. (Second album, II, featured a cover of namesakes Atomic Rooster’s Play The Game.)
In 2005, bassist/vocalist Chris Kosnik and drummer Bob Pantella (also an alumni of Monster Magnet) drafted in Finn Ryan (of Core) on guitar and vocals – and they’ve since released third album (called, um, III), and latest effort TAB4. (That stop gap album Boxriff wasn’t called 3.5 or ‘Live Album with Some Studio Tracks’ is a miracle.)
If today’s track is anything to go by, the album could be their best yet. Revival swaggers like one of the great rock anthems of the 70s, built on muscular riffs, a violent squall of a solo, multi-tracked vocals and lyrics about, you know, kissing the waves and fucking the sky, that kinda thing.
If ever an MP3 sounded like it could stand on the edge of a mountain and chop it down with the edge of its bitrate – it’s this one. Previous Tracks Of The Day have included songs from Dylan, Jane’s Addiction, Placebo – but this could be the best track yet.
