Mixerr Album Reviews #821

This is Michael Mixerr. Today I will review the Pushmonkey album from 1998.

The Pushmonkey album was another overlooked and overshadowed rock album from the 1990s and the Texas rock music circuit. Disregard all the hype coming out of Austin (the "Live Music Capital of the World") for one second. Pushmonkey is intensely bizarre, hard, and comes with a certain macabre relatively speaking. Their sound is similar to hard rock and heavy metal rather than the traditional trippy psychedelic rock coming from Austin. Tony Parker and Pat Fogerty did the most notable work for this album during their tenure with Arista Records. Pat Fogerty did most of the songwriting for the album. 

This Pushmonkey album obviously did not get very much leeway in terms of promotion from the Arista record label. Which is quite unfortunate. Pushmonkey album should have gone 2x platinum at the time. Arista was always kind of hit and miss when it came to business promotion for their artists. Pushmonkey was a miss in this particular for their debut Arista album. Pushmonkey went hard intensively speaking.  

Lefty is a heavy spacious Texas rock tune with good heavy hitting instrumentation from the Pushmonkey band. Lefty may sound similar to an instrumental rock song at first only because there is no lyrics sung or spoken at the beginning. That might confuse the listener into thinking that this Pushmonkey album is an instrumental rock album. Of course that's not the case. 

Now is hefty spacious rock song. Now is about being in the here and now of course. Choices of life and decisions are described in the song's lyrics. Now is about the viewpoints of what one sees. Now gets quite loud however. Similar to other tracks on the album. The heavy rock instrumentation is perfect! The sound is loud and heavy. The guitar skills are quite intriguing. 

The heavy rock instrumentation on Handslide is perfect! The sound is loud and heavy. The guitar skills are quite intriguing. Pat Fogerty does a super job performing on this track at that.

I rate this album, Pushmonkey, 4/5****!