This album rips. Ruff Majik have been one of my favorite heavy rock bands for a while now, and on Moth Eater the band takes their sound to a bold new level. The promise of their work seems to have been fulfilled on this album with groovy riffs, wonderful psychedelic passages and a vision that puts them in a league of their own. This is a band who understand the fundamental magic (majik?) of heavy rock, and with this latest creation they are able to concretely prove that they are among the best and the brightest doing it today.
I think the thing that resonates the most with me on Moth Eater is the raw energy that the band exude. Even the jammy, trippier offerings like "Cult Eyes" still simmer with a wonderful rawness and a sense that things could explode at any given moment. This is clearly a band well steeped in the world of 60s garage rock and who eagerly point back to these influences at every given opportunity. The waves of feedback and the sampled phone messages that punctuate the album help to give the entire thing a retro vibe that sets things into a much older context than the rock music happening in 2024.
Roaring, anthemic and full of an otherworldly beauty, Moth Eater is a monster of an album, a record you're going to want to keep coming back too and try to understand more and more of. This is a record that seems to operate in a magical world of its own, a record that consistently pushes the needle forward for the band and sees them taking bolder production choices than ever before. Ruff Majik have leaned into all that makes them different and exciting and the end result is a wild fuzz trip that is going to keep you engrossed for many a spin.
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https://ruffmajik.bandcamp.com/album/moth-eater-the-lorekeepers-bible
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