After doing the two piece vocals/bass & drums thing for their last couple of records and also serving as the rhythm section backbone of The Melvins for their respective last two records, Jared Warren and Coady Willis of the Stoner-Metal group Big Business have finally decided to bring on board a lead-guitarist in the form Toshi Kasai for their third album Mind the Drift and they are ten times the better for it.

Produced by The Shins and Built to Spill mastermind Phil Ek, Mind the Drift is a swift and powerful record that wastes no time in its 8 tracks and just under 35 minute length. Jared Warren's soaring Metal wail against Coady Willis' booming drums are a wonder to behold and Toshi Kasai's new found guitar work just makes the boys that much better, especially on tracks such as the barnstorming "Cats, Mice" and the Punk ferocity of "I Got it Online." The best Metal song I've heard this year hands down however is "The Drift", a near four-minute piece of perfection of bass, bad ass vocals and thundering drums that will surely be a stripper anthem for years to come. I didn't think anything could surpass the new Kylesa and Mastadon records in the world of Metal this year but I was sorely mistaken. Big Business' Mind the Drift is, for now, the quintessential Metal album of the year.