For fans of: Grinding Riffage

What they're saying: The Melvins on this record get some credit in genre groundbreaking, from Spill magazine: “Gluey Porch Treatments was unlike almost anything available at the time. Released in 1987 and lauded as a certain blueprint for the later genre that was to be famously labelled as “grunge”, Melvins didn’t so much kick in the doors as they did steamroll over the door with a dirty old rusted out tractor.” And Ned Raggett at AllMusic writes: ”Not many other bands out there were embracing the love of sludge metal monstrosities as the threesome was... The combination of sudden, herky-jerky thrash (but not thrash metal) and epic stomp and sprawl once again did wonders here.”

What we say: Long overdue (colored) vinyl reissue from the NW legends. Ultra slow grinding riffage from the godfathers of grunge circa 1987. Noise, punk, sludge, and bone-headed metal meet here, Gluey Porch Treatments is absolutely a spark for so much to come later.

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