Dali's Llama Records - One of the Independent Record Labels / Record Companies featuring Folk, Blues, Rock & Alternative Music

"Fucking toad fulla red wine and buckshot rock is what everyone says. Well... I will concur BUT amend Dali's Llama never get boring and beat you over the head with stupe via dullish boogie, they beat you with classic Chuck Berry tuck-the-pinky-in via slurried desert blues abstracted from the sensible space between Thin White Rope and Kyuss. Their "boogie" is chopped and channeled with a tension/release akin to the great early '70s Brit blues-rock stuff; The Groundhogs, The Edgar Broughton Band, Savoy Brown, Free with thee, uh, relaxed approach of AY-CE-fucking-DEE-fucking-CEE in '76 pork roast mode. It ain't all frenzy folks, it's got the swagger Kiss touched during "God of Thunder" and Grand Funk 'n' The James Gang groped a dozen times during many a prom, all cut with a grit-in-the-eye sensibility. The grin that knows "Hey, it's all sweat and jizz 'til someone has to pay child support." Damn.

All this really means (I get paid by the word, so yer gonna get a few extra) is you get gummy riffs sticking to ANY black t-shirt that contained a yowler who yowled at The MC5, yowled at Thin Lizzy, yowled at Saxon, then yowled at Green River, yowled at Fatso Jetson, and takes his nephew to the Motörhead, Misfits, Year Long Disaster, Valient Thorr tour BUT only after the Glasspack, Totimoshi, Nebula show (salting the Nation's better clubs this Fall). C'mon, I've sailed on the good ship D.L. for a few years now and I'm not getting' off 'cause they get in there and slug-it-out with 50 years of rock plus roll plus roots fuel bulking up their wood-choppin', sand-surfin', swamp-skatin' bar hum. Shit, this elemental can't fake it: You'd know before the first tune was a minute in. Hey, if they weren't fucking "it," they wouldn't have folks from Throw Rag, Kyuss, Yawning Man, and Hot Beast Pussy Fiend chipping in, would they?"

"Dali's Llama have kicked it up a notch. Their last album was good. "Full on Dunes" is even better. Groovy and psychedelic baby! Dali's Llama has concocted a flavor of its own, which is a good thing in a stoner rock scene that's starting to seem a tad glutted to me. Song constructions are diverse, with rockier tunes giving way to slower progressions (though no descent into attention-challenging drone). Flowing, wicked grooves that make the neck and head move! There's tons more artistic poetry in their music than in that last phrase of mine! A sense of fun and a little cutting attitude.

Swelling waves of trip-distortion sweep across the hearer, big liquid pulses of dense rock-n-roll energy that make Dali's Llama a good go-to act for those needing a stoner rock fix. And this band has the coolest name in the genre. It calls to mind both the surrealist mesmerism of the artist Dali as well as the mysticism of the Buddhist leader.

"FULL ON DUNES is a big surprise! I haven't heard so far from that band (but they released 6 CDs so far), but I was impressed from the first second. The album got produced by Scott Reeder from the mighty KYUSS and the sound is awesome! The record features special guest appearances by Mario Lalli (Fatso Jetson, Desert Sessions, Yawning Man, great guitars especially on CHEAP AND PORTABLE), Capt. Sean Wheeler ( Throw Rag, Charley Horse, Sun Trash), Joe Dillon (Hot Beat Pussy Fiend) and Scott Reeder (Kyuss, The Obsessed, Goatsnake). Starting with the mighty ON DUNES, which will blow you away with a mighty groove. The songs are heavier as the old material (note from the info-sheet) and the new drummer Jeff provides a solid driving rhythm. Maybe that is the point of the heavier and more groovy material. Songs like the mentioned ON DUNES, CAN'T CATCH ME (in my eyes the highlight on the record, including Mario Lallis guitar again and Scott Reeders bass solo) or the relaxed CHEAP AND PORTABLE are in the same league as CHE or MASTERS OF REALITY. This is true sounding southern California desert rock with great fuzz guitars. The mighty FLOATING starts with a ALICE IN CHAINS like riff and turns into a great smoothie song. I think this nine energetic songs are a must have for all Stoner / Desert / Fuzz Rock fans and I think the heaviest and fastest record from Zach Huskey (guitar, vocals) and Erica Huskey (bass) (plus the new drummer Jeff Howe). GET IT!

"Dali's Llama have the perfect knack of describing their albums - just read the title! Last year's Sweet Sludge was indeed beautiful sweet sludge, and this year's new release "Full On Dunes" is indeed full on! In their own description Dali's say "Heavier, thicker and faster songs than on our last cd" and I would totally agree, adding that Full On Dunes has much more light and shade than Sweet Sludge with surprises around every corner. If you like your rock full of riffing mayhem and beautiful slabs of heavy thundering bass (the sort of stuff Lemmy would be proud of) then this is the album for you!

Starting with On Dunes and a spine tingling doomy riff that takes you out into the desert and back to an earlier time, followed by some wonderfully worked vocal, guitar and bass interchanges, should have everybody grooving along in no time at all. Immediately followed by Can't Catch Me and a rally against big corporations and big brother, picking up where Micro Giant left off last year. All this and some beautiful bass work from the one and only Scott Reeder. King Platypus, is another driving stomping riff driven anthem with a beautiful 60s motif - "Leave King Platypus alone!" Desert Dogs - hard to pick a favourite on this album when there are so many to pick from - but Desert Dogs has to be the best of the bunch - again thundering riffs and as I said earlier the most amazing bass work and sound this side of a Motorhead album - surely going to be a live favourite! Cheap And Portable an perfect example of the light and shade on this album, a beautiful introspective bluesy number with some sublime lapsteel work from Joe Dillion and then there is Floating that wouldn't be out of place on a 1970's Aerosmith album. And I haven't even mentioned Smoke Tree, Full On and Aqua-Fuzz - go buy the album and discover them for yourselves - you won't regret it I promise

Oh and did I mention the production work by Scott Reeder, play it loud and bask in the sonic glory!"

Heavier, thicker and faster songs than on our last cd "Sweet Sludge". "Full On Dunes" offers nine new energetic tunes that blend our desert punk and heavy rock roots. As usual, every song features Zach's forever devotion to the riff.

On Dunes
Can't Catch Me
King Platypus
Desert Dogs
Cheap and Portable
Smoke Tree
Floating
Full On
Aqua - Fuzz

^{Zach Huskey - guitar & vocals · Erica Huskey - bass standard & bowed electric · Jeff Howe - drums & percussion}

^{Special Guests (between Jeff & Zach from left to right):

Scott Reeder (Kyuss, The Obsessed Goatsnake) - bass
Capt. Sean Wheeler (Throw Rag, Charley Horse, Sun Trash) - vocals
Mario Lalli (Fatso Jetson, Yawning Man, Desert Sessions) - guitar & spoken word

Joe Dillon (Hot Beat Pussy Fiend) - guitar, vocals & lap steel}

"Full On Dunes" cd and/or MP3 digital download are available for purchase through CD Baby