Abrasive trucker rock leaves listeners exhausted

After listening to just a few verses off the first track of King of the Road, the latest release from Southern California rockers Fu Manchu, cartoonish, obvious images immediately came to mind. This is trucker rock, I figured jokingly. Beer drinkin', 18-wheeler drivin' kind of stuff. But pigeonholing an entire album from a few repeated buzzing chords and grating vocals would just be wrong. Let's give it a chance, I thought.