The Bride Screamed Murder

The grunge mainstays return with another record full of unexpected twists, turns, jokes, diversions, and ideas.

If, God forbid, Stripes ever gets remade, there’s a song ready to replace Bill Murray’s madcap cadence calls: “The Water Glass,” the opening track of the Melvins’ The Bride Screamed Murder. The only problem is, the extended call-and-response drum-line jam is a fun joke that doesn’t know when to quit—a criticism, of…

The album is more or less interchangeable with 2008’s Nude with Boots both in terms of its sound and its level of quality.