Unnecessarily cheesy title aside, Master and the Mule’s debut single is a pretty impressive slab of vaguely progressively oriented metal. Comparisons to Tool will no longer waste no time in arriving on the scene but to write off this Leeds based quartet as copyists would be doing a disservice to the passion and verve that they display during this track at least. Vocally dextrous and musically attention grabbing, this band have retained the use of dynamics apparent during their previous existence under the moniker Immune but have developed their songwriting skills if this effort is anything to go by.
A slow burning success story of a single, '6ixty 5ive' does not hang around a second too long but still feels lengthy enough to have explored its ideas to its fullest potential.
Dark and atmospherically threatening, this song shows that Master and the Mule mean business, even if their full-length debut is not set to arrive until early 2012.
Fluid and powerful, in the absence of many of Britain’s finest ‘prog’ acts of recent times (think Oceansize and Aereogramme), Master and the Mule could provide a thrilling new alternative to less cognitively provocative acts if this first salvo is anything to go by.
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