Labels: Throne
Review by: Kunal Nandi
The lengthy track times and even lengthier hairstyles from this Spanish power-trio suggest that we’re in for yet more unnecessarily drawn-out and listless sludge, but in actual fact, you couldn’t be further from the truth. A righteously kick-ass rock record from start to finish, Moho certainly know a good fucking riff when they hear it, and have an uncanny knack for battering the shit out of them without it getting in the slightest bit boring. Recorded during a mammoth live session (an understandable decision, considering that these guys are as tight and in-tune with each other as it’s possible to get), Moho’s blend of harsh hardcore punk with swinging stoner is extremely hard to resist. Kicking off in frenzied style that makes you wonder how they’ll keep things going for the entirety of El Tren’s nine-minute duration (the whole thing is 40 minutes long with a mere six tracks), riffs morph into one another, kept going by completely natural progressions, alternating between where the music takes the players and where they choose to take it, the energy providing the heat that keeps this juggernaut ticking over. As the singer says at the start of one song “so fucking let’s go!” In-fucking-deed!