Walt Mink

UK & Ireland first press 1992. Record plays great with minor marks. Sleeve EX with minor wear. OG price sticker
Sounding a lot like Jane's Addiction but with raw, churning, aggressively paced power chords polished to a higher gloss and with a more well-rounded tone, the guitar work on Walt Mink is neither homage nor rip-off - John Kimbrough and Walt Mink are contemporaneous with Dave Navarro and Jane's Addiction, with Kimbrough's vocal delivery, though somewhere in the very general range of Perry Farrell's, is much clearer and easier on the ear, and Walt Mink's tracks have a less heavier edge. Seriously rippling explosive lead lines trade off with punchy, aggressive rhythmic chops to make Kimbrough's guitar the band's accelerative force, and when combined with the enormous lockstep groove established by Candace Bellanoff's heavily burbling basslines and Joey Waronker's aggressively flickering snare-work, I guess it wasn't difficult for me to make that connection, though I think Walt Mink have the better technical players, and craft much suppler material.