Any attempt to predict what the Melvins are gonna cook up next is the very definition of a fool’s errand. The band’s sound over the decades has proven as fluid as their line-ups, which at different times have included dual basses, double drummers and collaborations with all manner of fellow travellers from Jello Biafra to Mike Patton. Thunderball is supposedly a return to their original Melvins 1983 configuration but, typically, even this isn’t quite the case. Sure, this album reunites founding mainstay Buzz Osborne and initial drummer Mike Dillard, but also invited along are Bristolian Ni Maîtres and Void Manes from Atlanta, two experimental musicians whose inclusion marks Thunderball as quite different from the last Melvins 1983 record. The eminent silliness of 2021’s Work...