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The Bosses of the Brighton department of blues not too long ago returned seaside from their mighty new-friend-making jaunt across the countryside with Irish friends The Bonnevilles, following the discharge of their, ahem, “biggest hits” set, Ready For The Tide To Rise. I gotta marvel aloud, how the hell may they slender their finest songs right down to 12 tracks, not to mention the 17 tracks on the digital releases, however maybe I digress.
Desirous to deliver alongside some contemporary music for the tour the lads launched a really cool Mudlow four-song EP (I coronary heart EPs! Give me 4-5 stable songs over 8 good ones and 4 meh, however once more…I digress) consisting of a brand new music referred to as Decrease Than Mud from the tooth-marked, bourbon shellacked and jazz and grime-besotted carpenter’s pencil of the enigmatic Tobias Mudlow. Decrease Than Mud is basic Mudlow- nimble, menacing, and subtly rocking arduous in a glossy type of nation blues jazzed combo that’s solely bettered by Tobias’ lyrics, and story-telling.
Subsequent up is Crocodile Man, a uncommon cowl and a music by the late people singer Dave Carter and Mudlow has put their stamp on it. It is a determined, cimmerian music that Mudlow wraps their coats round and rolls right into a shaded lower down by a darkish, tempestuous river.
To pound the spile into the metaphorical whiskey barrel we get two reside tracks, the impossibly funky So Lengthy Lee from their first album Welcome to Mudlow Nation (2004) and Caz from 2017’s Crackling EP.
So Lengthy Lee has lengthy been a favourite of mine, and never simply because (full disclosure/humblebrag) they let me play maracas on it as soon as, and Caz will ship a shiver down your backbone. The customarily angular, sparking and jazzed guitar model of Tobias, his sturdy, uncooked Waitsian vocals and the characters it portrays, in combo with Paul Pascoe’s stable, considerate bass taking part in and drummer Matt Latcham’s understated batterie present a stable but mutable stage for Tobias’s phrases and guitar to bop over and with, authoring a method not like that of some other band within the alt-whatever you need to name it scene. They do their factor and refine it, then drag it through the filth. Once more. Undoubtedly one of the vital fascinating and authentic bands round in any style, and one which rewards with repeated listenings.
I am informed that this EP could have a brief life. Bodily copies are restricted to fifty and people are near gone. As soon as that occurs, this set of songs will disappear. You have been warned.
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