Gumbo Millennium

Gumbo Millennium
Studio album by
24-7 Spyz
Released1990
Genre
LabelIn-Effect[3]
24-7 Spyz chronology
Harder Than You
(1989) 		Gumbo Millennium
(1990) 		Strength in Numbers
(1992)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Calgary HeraldB+[4]
Chicago Tribune[2]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal4/10[5]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[6]
Los Angeles Times[7]
Rock Hard8/10[8]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[9]

Gumbo Millennium is the second album by the American rock band 24-7 Spyz, released in 1990.[10][11]

The album peaked at No. 135 on the Billboard 200.[12]

Critical reception

The Chicago Tribune wrote that "Peter Fluid`s elastic, soul-fired phrasing is comparable to Bob Marley`s, and guitarist Jimi Hazel blends the fluidity of Wes Montgomery with flamethrower riffs worthy of Eddie Van Halen."[2] The Los Angeles Times thought that "some crushing metal cuts, inventive jazz-rock hybrids and touching soulfulness are obscured by uninspired filler and especially by plain ol' goofing off that should never have been let out of the studio."[7]

Trouser Press wrote: "Employing an uninhibited stylistic palette that seems to reflect whatever springs into the Spyz’s collective consciousness at any given moment, Gumbo Millennium winds up retreating to opposite corners of relatively serious hard-rock (still with pungent political/personal lyrics, but now employing a thick, hardened metal-cum-hardcore sound) and flaky digressions that don’t really add up to an album."[13] The New Yorker called the album " a definitive document of the [Black Rock] movement and a good definition of it."[14]

Track listing

  1. "John Connelly's Theory"
  2. "New Super Hero Worship"
  3. "Deathstyle"
  4. "Dude U Knew"
  5. "Culo Posse"
  6. "Don't Push Me"
  7. "Spyz on Piano"
  8. "Valdez 27 Million?"
  9. "Don't Break My Heart!"
  10. "We'll Have Power"
  11. "Racism"
  12. "Heaven and Hell"
  13. "We Got a Date"
  14. "Some Defenders' Memories"

Personnel

  • P. Fluid: vocals
  • Jimi Hazel: guitar
  • Rick Skatore: bass
  • Anthony Johnson: drums

References

  1. ^ a b c Henderson, Alex. "Gumbo Millennium - 24-7 Spyz | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
  2. ^ a b c d "24-7 Spyz Gumbo Millennium (In-Effect)". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
  3. ^ "Heavy Rotation". SPIN. SPIN Media LLC. August 28, 1990 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ Tremblay, Mark (21 Oct 1990). "Recent Releases". Calgary Herald. p. G5.
  5. ^ Popoff, Martin (2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 462. ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9.
  6. ^ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 8. MUZE. p. 304.
  7. ^ a b Cromelin, Richard (8 July 1990). "In Brief". Los Angeles Times. Calendar. p. 63.
  8. ^ "24-7 SPYZ - Gumbo Millennium". ROCK HARD Heavy-Metal-Magazin.
  9. ^ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 723.
  10. ^ "24-7 Spyz | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  11. ^ Pareles, Jon (August 23, 1991). "POP/JAZZ; 24-7 Spyz: Blame It All on the Baby Sitter" – via NYTimes.com.
  12. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2010). Top Pop Albums (7th ed.). Record Research. p. 801.
  13. ^ "24-7 Spyz". Trouser Press. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
  14. ^ Greenman, Ben. "Eyes on the Spyz". The New Yorker.