The Company Corvette Never Enough

The Company Corvette don't quite reinvent themselves on their third album, but they wind up pretty close to it by the time they're done. It was five years ago that the trio of bassist/vocalist Ross Pritchett, guitarist Alexei Korolev and drummer Peter Hurd released their second album, End of the Summers (review here), and at the risk of being honest, it didn't do it for me. I had seen the band live by then and found them engaging enough, but the record didn't have the same effect. For the seven-track/38-minute Never Enough, the three-piece hit Gradwell House in New Jersey to work with engineer/mixer Matt Weber, and the resulting material, from the farty bass wah on Devilwitch to the spaced-out multi-layered solos of the ultra-stonerized Burn Out, showcase a fully developed sonic persona. At times abrasive, The Company Corvette almost bring to mind a thicker-grooving take on Acid Bath's underlying sludge fuckall, and whether they're messing with faster tempos on The Stuff or dug into all-out Snowblind nod on opener Foot in Mouth, they keep a sense of attitude central to the proceedings, Pritchett's vocals moving into harsher territory but even when clean holding onto a (purposefully) dazed drawl, calling to mind Thurston Moore at the start of closer Pigeon. Released once again through the band's own The Company Records, Never Enough realizes the potential their earlier work showed and brings it to life with a sense of grunged-up heft that becomes its defining element. They're an act who has clearly put work into sounding like they couldn't give a ****. - The Obelisk