Chug were a band from the early to the mid nineties who played dark, brooding, sludge-laden, distorted rock. This is their first full length album following their first EP entitled ‘Kisser’, from which the title track was used as incidental music in the Nickolodeon cult favorite The Adventures of Pete and Pete, a show that was so hip and offbeat that at one point Iggy Pop was cast to play the role of a single parent, Michael Stipe as a depressed ice cream man, and David Johansson of the New York Dolls as a no nonsense state trooper… but I digress.
Chug’s music is a solid tour de force of distortion, feedback, distorted bass, and melancholic male-female vocal harmonies. The songs of Sassafras can be sonically characterized as being derived from elements of late 60’s psychedelia with a gooey coating of metal guitar riffage festooned over the surface. The occasional appearance of Farfisa organ and harmonica beautifully compliment the fuzz laden Fender Mustangs…at least that’s what I would bet the guitar of choice would be for an early 90’s garage sludge rocker.
Charles Ballas
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