Title: One of VOL's best
Product review: Killing Floor is the last--and unquestionably the best--of VOL's early, psycho-folk period. The album is largely performed by only Bill Mallonee and Billy Holmes, but it feels like the most full of all of the band's albums. Holmes flavors the songs with mandolin, slide guitar, and even a trumpet, while Mallonee's lyrics are at once their most vitriol and go-for-the-jugular ("I could rape you with a single look / Kill you with a glance"), while at the same time their most fragile and personal ("Can you come and pick up another skeleton man? / I been cuttin' my wrists for a little sickness within"), often in the same song (these quotes are both from "Motel Room").The Vigilantes have reached these heights again, but never in the context of folk music. Killing Floor is the album that Jugular and Driving the Nails attempted to be, and if you're interested in early VOL, is the album to turn to.
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