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"Old Man" is Shabby Rogue's second single to be taken from their second album 'By Hook and By Crook', which was released in March this year.
The band has three singer-guitarist-bassist-keys player-songwriters, who all deliver vocals on this track.
It opens with a quite heavy bass sound with some violins before the guitars come in beneath a repeated vocal refrain of featuring the "Old Man" of the title. There is then a country-influenced chorus, after which the guitars get louder and funkier and are augmented by big rolling drums. Singer number two delivers the vocals here,a nd is pleasingly distinctive from his predecessor. Then, singer number three appears as the song begins to build with a more prominent guitar sound over the continuing rolling drums. There is then the reintroduction of now more prominent violins as the song builds towards the end.
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This is hard to pin-down in terms of style, but it is rather good. It's slightly blues, slightly country, with a drum and bass-heavy rock sound. It's almost like a slower, much more subdued Clutch, or a slower, heavier version of The Thrills.
Definitely a band to keep an ear on.
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