Review by Sonny for Grin - Translucent Blades (2020)

Grin comprises the husband and wife duo of Jan and Sabine Oberg (of german sludge outfit Earth Ship) and play sludgy doom with psychedelic overtones. It's fairly straightforward stuff, but it has satisfyingly groove-laden riffs, nicely underpinned by Sabine's driving basswork and Jan's forceful drumming. The vocals range from angry-sounding sludge yelling to echoing, melodic, psychedelic intonations. It is heavy without being overbearingly crushing and the psych overtones add a positivity to the album's atmosphere. If I had to describe it in a couple of words, I would call it space sludge, a melding of the vastness of space psych with a dense sludge core.