How much creepy crawly, instrumental, Canuck dope n’ drone can you handle? Well, Electric Magma thinks you can handle 70 minutes worth, as that’s what you get here on Snail the Wah, an aptly named slow cooker of barrel bottom, mind bending, chug and snug stoner rawk. Personally, I think 70 minutes is too much time to wallow in such murky depths of the mind, so I’m gonna put the warning out there that this one is only for the truly depraved. And you’ll know if you’re one of those wretched souls if you connect with songs like “Attack of the Big Brown Eggs,” “Beertastic Bongfoolery” (or, coincidentally, “Bongtastic Beerfoolery”), and “Lost Shadows and Diatribes of an Albino Groundhog.” See what you’re dealing with here? It’s like a Dali inspired puppet show set to a soundtrack of shaky Sabbath sludge. A really, really long puppet show and a whole mess o’ sludge. Just the way wah is supposed to sound, of course.
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– Jeff Warren