​Hunny is the turn-of-the-millenium "return of the rock" played out in real time; it formed when the members of YIMBY-approved Staten Island dance-pop crew Paragraph got bored with glossy beats and threw their drum machines in the trash. The bruising grunge-metal gnashers' debut I'm History was recorded (and partially written) in 10 hours, a melodic version of the pre-major sludge-pop released by Melvins and Bleach-era Nirvana. Vocalist Michael "Super 60" has a voice that peaks out into a throaty gargle—hear it on the title track, which combines drunken, gently tuneless Mudhoney party-crash with Super 60's Cobain-like ability to scream two notes at once.

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