Harvey Milk - Life... The Best Game In Town

Artist: Harvey Milk
Album: Life... The Best Game In Town
Genre: Sludge Metal
Rating: 3.5 of 5


Harvey Milk have created a rich tapestry within their latest long play. I must agree that life is indeed the best game in town.

The name of the game here is sludge. Harvey Milk create a wonderfully low and consistent beat and keep on going. Play "Decades" and "Skull Socks & Rope Shoes" and you can feel some real power coursing through the speakers. Even with such a slow tempo they come out with some very nice chord progressions. This progression skill is better exemplified in their more delicate moments such as the intro to "Death Goes To The Winner".

I don't want you to think that the entire album takes place under 60 bpm. "After All I've Done For You This How You Repay Me" is a long title that takes longer to say than the main riff. "Barnburner" is exactly what the title says; Harvey Milk get things going and don't let up. This also proves, to me at least, that they definitely don't go back to sludge because they don't know their way around their instruments.

Harvey Milk puts out some epic songs whether they be slow moving powerhouses or the result of a few axes on fire. This is quite the enjoyable album and it is an experience unto itself.