![Mamaleek – Diner Coffee [Things You Might Have Missed 2022]](https://www.angrymetalguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/mamaleek-diner_coffee.jpg.webp)
“Diner Coffee offers jazz and blues in their most perverse form, squeezing them from their hiding place like cysts. A counterpart to Imperial Triumphant’s latest, which portrays its filth beneath an urban sheen of golden decadence, anonymous duo-now-collective Mamaleek embraces the grime in the setting of a city diner.” How do you like your java?
“Hopelessness is both a universal and local phenomenon. It’s always the same handful of pressures that cause it; resource inaccessibility, environmental/health factors, power held by the unscrupulous, etc, but every place has its own particular aesthetic of hopelessness. Despondency in, say, Guangzhou, China will look, sound and feel different than it does in the American Midwest. Sludge/Noise band Chat Pile call their debut album God’s Country “Oklahoma’s specific brand of misery,” and indeed their name itself comes from the piles of toxic waste, left over from an unregulated lead and zinc extraction industry, poisoning towns in the Sooner State.” American nightmares.
![Mamaleek – Come & See [Things You Might Have Missed 2020]](https://www.angrymetalguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Mamaleek-Come-See.jpg)
“Mamaleek’s experimental fluidity has been bubbling beneath the surface since 2008. Not a lot is known about the two brothers who have channeled many genres through the Mamaleek moniker. Come & See is their seventh full-length and another chapter in their difficult-to-place story. If you asked me about this record a few months ago I would have huffed, puffed and dismissed it as a work of directionless cross-genre experimentation. After revisiting the record last month, however, I was struck by how coherent and engrossing it was as a whole.” Experiments in sound.
