| One Inch Masters | ||||
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| Released | 1994 | |||
| Recorded | Egg Studios, Seattle, 1994 | |||
| Genre | Garage punk, garage rock, grunge | |||
| Label | Epitaph [1] | |||
| Producer | Kurt Bloch | |||
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One Inch Masters is the third full-length album by American garage rock band Gas Huffer. [3] It was released in 1994 on Epitaph Records. [4]
Dave Thompson, in Alternative Rock, called the album's sound "unique" and wrote that it lives "noisily in the cracks between pop-punk and hardcore." [5] The Staten Island Advance determined that "the band's no-holds-barred approach incorporates some the best elements of revved-up rockabilly, '60s-styled garage-rock, surf and hot-rod sounds, '70s-styled riff-heavy, punk slop, in the vein of early Stones, Stooges, N.Y. Dolls, Damned, Mekons, with a shots of Memphis soul grooves and hot hillbilly twang thrown in." [6]
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