Melvins Nude with Boots (Apple Red Colored Vinyl)

3.5 stars out of 5 -- "'Billy Fish,' 'The Smiling Cobra,' and 'Kicking Machine' are among the best songs they have written during their quarter-decade project in hard-rock deconstruction..."
4.5 stars out of 5 -- "From leviathan drum rolls to harpoon guitar hooks, cuts like 'The Kicking Machine' play like newly unearthed Led Zeppelin studio outtakes..."
"'Dog Island' is where NUDE WITH BOOTS really takes off, a relentless fusion of welded guitar fury, punctuated with Crover's savage snare splintering, that strips the group's sound down to the bone."
"The Black Sabbath influence still rattles around the speakers....An album that stoops, sways and makes no effort to fit in with anything other than the muse of its creators....Admirable..."
3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]heir 16th studio album opens impressively with 'The Kicking Machine' echoing Led Zeppelin at their heaviest and 'Billy Fish''s hypnotic riffage."
3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he epic 'Dog Island' is the choicest heap of sludge, its monolithic riff driven home by dual drummers -- Dale Crover and Coady Willis -- pummelling their mammoth shared kit with acrid grace."