Switch Opens :: Joint Clash

Stockholm’s Switch Opens drop their fifth, Joint Clash, after gaining speed and recognition as Fingerspitzengefühl as well under the newer moniker. Winding their stoner rock and metal with some detours into more progressive roads, Switch Opens handles both. Mirror Man is a great fusion of the two, getting slightly unhinged in the middle. The more straight-ahead cuts stand head to head with the more progressive ones, but don’t, as you’d expect, go as many places. Though they do keep on odd twist on things, as in Pompous Pumping Heart. Anchored by a solid bottom end, the thick production still has room for detail and some air. All put to good use as they space out some on the slow rumbling Like Fire. They stretch their legs in another direction on The Reunion before the great closer title cut, showing there’s still heft in the calm.

Mirror Man :: Switch Opens :: Joint Clash (2012, Transubstans)