Album Review: Pills For Breakfast

Pills For Breakfast have been around since 2012 and this is their first full album. The band consists of two core members Neil Johns and Chris Thorpe but also enlist other musicians to appear throughout as guest musicians.

This album oozes rock and roll at its rawest slimiest and filthiest. Nice chunky guitar sound that is dirty to the core. This is a band you want to see when you’re out drinking and it’s the last pub for the night.

The opening track Sedated is a grinder of a track that sets the tone which leads straight into the next track Blistered Hands which also rocks along and gets your feet tapping and body moving.

Vampire is completely different with acoustic guitars showing some diversity in another catchy track. There’s even a cool solo that lets the track rock out just a little.

Selling Jesus was another track I really enjoyed with some cool solo work going on in here too. They are great musicians who take their craft very seriously.

This album needs a few listens to pick up all the intricacies hidden in the tapestry. There are so many sounds and bands you could name as influences from the likes of Thin Lizzy though to Motorhead. There’s a direct nod to British band Prodigy with their cover of the hit song Breathe.

Blind is a track which I quite like and would be my favourite of the album with the track Inphlux coming in a close second. Both have quite a dirge like grind going on that seems to press my buttons. Outphlux is an instrumental and stripped back version of Inphlux and compliments it extremely well.

The album is a pretty solid album for fans of dirty distorted guitars wailing blues riffs with a grind that will still be running through your head days later.