Harvey Milk Returns With Special Wishes...

It’s been a wonderful year for music. It took a bit to get the ball rolling, but now here in September I can look back and confidently say that there have been some amazing releases this year. Even better, there is still about 3 and a half months left! Awesome.

All this was put into perspective for me as I was listening to the new record from Harvey Milk titled Special Wishes. I was extremely excited to see last year that the band had regrouped after initially disbanding back in ’98. I honestly didn’t think I would ever actually hear new material from these guys, but this year being full of surprises, here they are with a new record out on Troubleman Unlimited.

For their first two records, My Love is Higher Than Your Assessment of What My Love Could Be and Courtesy and Good Will Toward Men, they produced some of the most mind numbingly slow and crushingly heavy music to ever be put on record. Adding to the uneasiness of the music was Creston Spiers’ vocals which were every bit as trying and tormenting as the music itself. The complete package was so honest and painful that by the end of a record it had most likely exhausted you. Their second album is the paramount of just that, epic and absolutely heart crushing. For their third album, The Pleaser, they changed things up taking in a bit of a classic rock influence and creating a much more straightforward hard rock sound.

On Special Wishes the band returns in stunning form, not missing a beat. The album is kind of mixture of everything found in their past discography. Featuring their trademark sloth like pace at times while working in some fairly mid paced riffs here and there. Themes again range from heartache to that of our nation.

Harvey Milk – I’ve Got a Love [MP3]
Harvey Milk – Instrumental [MP3]

Please, please, please go pick this up though Troubleman Unlimited as this album was the work of many years that thankfully have come to fruition in the form of this fine release. Also, you can now also pick up the reissue of the amazing Courtesy and Good Will Towards Men through Troubleman as well. Well worth it folks.