Hedvig Mollestad Trio / Smells Funny
Album: Smells Funny   Collection:General
Artist:Hedvig Mollestad Trio   Added:Sep 2019
Label:Rune Grammofon  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2019-10-18 Pull Date: 2019-12-20
Week Ending: Nov 3 Oct 27
Airplays: 1 1

Recent Airplay
1. Oct 01, 2022: Music Casserole
Sugar Rush Mountain
4. Oct 30, 2019: Brownian Motion
Lucidness
2. Dec 28, 2019: Music Casserole
First Thing To Pop Is The Eye
5. Oct 26, 2019: Buford J. Sharkley Presents: As Told to Hervey Okkles
Lucidness
3. Dec 21, 2019: Music Casserole
Sugar Rush Mountain

Album Review
Super Chuck
Reviewed 2019-09-24
The belching, blues-rock mongrel that is the Hedvig Mollestad Trio could emanate only from the Scandinavian music scene and only in this particular time, when vinyl is trending and when the past is ceaselessly reexamined. Performing blues shrapnel improvisations allied to sprawling Frank Zappa-like, fuzzed-out guitar solos and a ZZ Top-worthy rhythm section manhandled into a sturdy chassis, Hedvig Mollestad Trio flames through, sourcing from the original Allman Brothers Band’s open-ended orchestral crescendos and Hendrix’s interstellar explorations.

Like: Bushman'S Revenge, Ola Kvernberg, Elephant9

FCC: Clean

Play: 2, 4, 6,

1.Beastie, Beastie (5:54) Agile bass riffs, frenetic fret-shredding, a track with sense of control.
2.First Thing To Pop Is The Eye (8:55) Remarkably tight, unapologetically loud and surging with energy.
3.Jurášek (3:59) Forgoes heavy rock riffing in favor of more nuanced, melodically-driven jazz.
4.Sugar Rush Mountain (4:05) Melding jazz fusion with prog-tastic shredding.
5.Bewitched, Dwarfed And Defeathered (4:39) Unalloyed metal but with stunt guitar gradually going ballistic.
6.Lucidness (8:12) Free jazz freak-out is anything but lucid, is definitely in the former camp.

Track Listing
1. Beastie, Beastie   4. Sugar Rush Mountain
2. First Thing To Pop Is The Eye   5. Bewitched, Dwarfed And Defeathered
3. Jurášek   6. Lucidness