A Walk with Love & Death

A Walk with Love & Death
Studio album by Melvins
Released July 7, 2017
Studio Sound of Sirens Studio
Genre Experimental rock, sound collage
Label Ipecac
Producer The Melvins, Toshi Kasai
Melvins chronology
Basses Loaded
(2016)		 A Walk with Love & Death
(2017)		 Pinkus Abortion Technician
(2018)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?6.6/10[1]
Metacritic69/100[2]
Review scores
SourceRating
The Line of Best Fit9/10[3]
MusicOMH[4]
The Skinny[5]

A Walk with Love & Death is a double album by the Melvins released on July 7, 2017 through Ipecac Recordings.[6] It includes two distinct albums: Love, a fourteen-song soundtrack to a short film by Jesse Nieminen, also known as A Walk with Love & Death, and Death, made up of nine standard songs. This is the first full-length Melvins album to feature bassist Steven McDonald, who only appeared on four of the songs on their previous album, Basses Loaded. Guest musicians include Joey Santiago (Pixies), Anna Waronker (that dog.) and Teri Gender Bender (Le Butcherettes).

Track listing

All songs written by the Melvins

Love (Original Soundtrack)

No.TitleLength
1."Aim High"2:01
2."Queen Powder Party"2:14
3."Street Level St. Paul"2:18
4."The Hidden Joice"1:11
5."Give It To Me"2:49
6."Chicken Butt"1:49
7."Eat Yourself Out"5:03
8."Scooba"1:09
9."Halfway To the Bakersfield Mall"4:17
10."Pacoima Normal"2:33
11."Park Head"3:39
12."T-Burg"4:10
13."Track Star"5:02
14."The Asshole Bastard"4:55

Death

No.TitleLength
1."Black Heath"6:41
2."Sober-delic (acid only)"6:03
3."Euthanasia"4:36
4."What's Wrong with You?"2:36
5."Edgar the Elephant"3:36
6."Flaming Creature"4:22
7."Christ Hammer"3:51
8."Cactus Party"3:37
9."Cardboa Negro"2:56

Personnel

Love

with

  • Toshi Kasai – assorted recordings, noise
  • Joey Santiago – special guest guitar
  • Anna Waronker – special guest backing vocals
  • James Bartlett – special guest keyboards
  • Tom Hazelmyer – special guest guitar

Death

  • King Buzzo – guitar, vocals
  • Dale Crover – drums, vocals
  • Steven McDonald – bass, vocals

with

  • Joey Santiago – extra guitar
  • Anna Waronker – backing vocals
  • Teri Gender Bender – backing vocals

Additional personnel

  • Toshi Kasai – producer, engineer
  • Steven McDonald – engineer
  • John Golden – mastering
  • Mackie Osborne – art

References

  1. ↑ "Any Decent Music Review". Anydecentmusic.com. Retrieved June 5, 2018.
  2. ↑ "Metacritic Review". Metacritic.com. Retrieved June 5, 2018.
  3. ↑ Coney, Brian (June 27, 2017). "The Melvins sound reinvigorated on A Walk With Love and Death". Thelineofbestfit.com. Retrieved June 5, 2018.
  4. ↑ Shepherd, Sam (July 3, 2018). "MusicOMH Review". Musicomh.com. Retrieved June 5, 2018.
  5. ↑ Wild, Pete (July 4, 2017). "The Skinny Review". Theskinny.co.uk. Retrieved June 5, 2018.
  6. ↑ "A Walk With Love & Death". Bandcamp. Retrieved July 16, 2017.


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