The young Norwegian four-piece Buckaduzz — whose name, if you haven’t yet, you should really take the time to say out loud because it’s just so much fun – make their recorded debut with the self-released three-song CDEP The Big Slow. Their mix of noise and stoner influences comes out right from the start, and it’s apparent in listening that Buckaduzz are still trying to figure out where they want to be in terms of their sound, but in the meantime, they’ve managed to come up with some killer, sans-bullshit rock, which, in its final moments, even offers up a surprise in terms of how complex the band wants to be. The proverbial “good start.”

In a way, the first 10 seconds of opener “Aquanaut” tell the whole tale of The Big Slow. The thick, fuzz guitars of Sondre Mæland and Markus Lie Andersen lead the charge into the track, and they remain a leading focus for the EP’s 22:39 duration, bassist Ole Rokseth and drummer Martin Gerlyng having no trouble keeping up but never really taking the fore, even on the more rhythmically-centered second track, “Gunslinger.” The starts and stops would seem to be a rhythmic key, but I’d argue that song, which towards its close reminds more of the modern House of Broken Promises style of accessible riffage than the angry Dozer/Greenleaf vibes I got off the opener, is even more about the interplay between Mæland and Andersen, the throaty growls of the former adding an even more aggressive immediacy throughout.

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