Swallow The Sun

Preview of second single from Molosser Crude's upcoming debut album. Single release date February 28, 2025.

What would it sound like if the Jimi Hendrix Experience were to emergere from an extremely lengthy recording session at the Electric Lady Studios in New York to find that more than twenty years had passed, and in a dark, rainy street they met up with grim noise riff rockers Unsane, hit it off and decided to combine their capabilities? Well, to start with you’d have six people, whereas Swedish power duo MOLOSSER CRUDE have to make do with only two: drumming vocalist Tess and multi-amp guitar player Jahn. On their new single SWALLOW THE SUN, however, they do manage to merge the sensibilities of bluesy sixties psychedelia and the jazz-based swing of that era’s drumming and singing with the darkness, harsher rhythms and relentless drive of later decades when the summer of love was long gone.

With earlier releases, Molosser Crude have – reluctantly – defined themselves as a stoner rock outfit, throwing in grunge, blues, noise and jazz to round out the bill – and probably that still stands for Swallow the Sun. At least if you look at ur-stoners Kyuss rather than at later derivates of them; with songs ranging from furious Green Machine to dreamy Catamaran, the Palm Springs Desert combo reached far and wide with no regards to style. The same can be said of Molosser Crude, whose only real defining factor is the combined experience, sensibility and energy of its members. Any riff-hungry listener will get her or his fill from Swallow the Sun and the duo’s other offerings.