Equilibrium 2000 Album

Crowbar

Tone and mood wise, the band attempts to meld the anything-goes approach of the previous album with the old-style sludge of older records, with some gimmicks thrown in to maintain interest. The end result is a mixed bag which, could have been better, but more often than not, makes Odd Fellows Rest feel like a bit of a one-off. The first half of the album is clearly the most focused section, featuring shifting sludge-punk performances such as "I Feel the Burning Sun" and "Down Into the Rotting Earth". Then the record takes an odd turn on the piano dirge "To Touch the Hand of God", which is just not one of the band's better tracks, IMHO. Elsewhere, I am not sure what they are trying to accomplish covering Gary Wright's "Dream Weaver", but something about has never sat right with me. And then they follow it up with about the ugliest-on-purpose a cappella cover of "In a Gadda da Vida" I have ever heard. It just has me wondering about the general state these guys might have been in at the time of recording…. Still, compared to the other Crowbar records it's not bad, in that the majority of tracks fit in with their classic formula. It's just that on these covers, and on the "Hand of God" track, they got a little too out-of-whack.