Weight by Rollins Band

Weight, Rollins Band's fourth studio album, arrived on Imago on April 12, 1994, and it carries the two songs they're best known for, "Liar" and "Disconnect". Fresh off the road from The End of Silence, the band spent 1993 writing in Manhattan's East Village, where everyone lived except Henry Rollins, the former Black Flag singer who was based in Los Angeles and dreamed up lyrics on his way to rehearsal. By his own account a big chunk of it, "Liar", "Disconnect", "Fool" and "Volume 4" among them, came together in two days, then got picked apart, argued over and rebuilt through the summer and fall.

The sound is funk metal gone to the gym: knotted, elastic grooves, jazzy detours, noise crackling at the edges, with Sim Cain, aboard since the band began in 1987, still in the lineup, and Rollins hollering at himself as hard as at anyone else. "Liar" creeps, then explodes, and MTV played it hard. Come In and Burn came next.

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