10. Kyuss – …And The Circus Leaves Town (1995)

…And The Circus Leaves Town was released in the summer of 1995, three months before Kyuss broke up, and it shows. Where its predecessor, Welcome To Sky Valley, sounds like a fully formed artistic statement, an album with a decided beginning, middle, and end, Circus feels as patchwork as Wretch did. It’s so unfocused, in fact, that the penultimate track, “Catamaran,” is a cover of a song written by replacement drummer Alfredo Hernandez’s previous band, Yawning Man. Circus begins with a bang — the one-two punch of “Hurricane” and “One Inch Man” — but those two songs sound like conscious re-attempts at writing “Gardenia” and “Asteroid,” which kicked off Sky Valley. At this point, Homme’s heart was elsewhere.