Authentic sounding American blues-country roots music all the way from South East London.
Rope is the first single from the five piece band's forthcoming album. This will be their third but the first with a new and revitalised line up.
Despite his exotic name, lead singer and songwriter Felix Bechtolsheimer, grew up in London and it is the stateside alt-country influence which lies at the heart of the band's sound.
Rope's driving beat is puntuated by spaghetti-western style harmonica and cowboy-esque grunts while Felix's gravelly vocals sound every bit like those of a hard living chain smoker.
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The song takes on a different, and to my ear much improved, character in The Alabama 3 remix. The mix pumps up the bass and adds a healthy slab of glitchy electronica which gives the track a far moodier and altogether more sinister quality.
This suits the dark reflections that love twists the rope around the soul.
This is life on the hard shoulder rather than in the fast lane.
2t - 7.12
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