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COWBELL

HAUNTED HEART (DAMAGED GOODS)

COWBELL - HAUNTED HEART 111109
Format:
1 LP
Release:
26.05.2017
Label:
DAMAGED GOODS
Kat.-Nr.:
111109
Barcode:
5020422047211
Das Londoner Grarage-Soul-Duo COWBELL ist mit seinem dritten Album ,Haunted Heart" auf Damaged Goods zurück! Mehr Memphis, mehr Fuzz, mehr Grease, mehr Tänzeln, mehr Party, mehr Wohlbefinden verbreitender RnB! Und ja, mehr COWBELL.

Jack Sandham (Guitar/Keys/Vox) und Wednesday Lyle (Drums/Vox) betören beide Seiten des Atlantik mit ihrer Beat-Stampede.

Auf ,Haunted Heart" erforschen die beiden die Musik von RAY CHARLES und DUSTY SPRINGFIELD, während sie noch immer mit ihren schwitzigen und groovigen Garage-Rockern ihr Freakprogramm weiter betreiben.

Jacks Vocals klingen nach dem Sun Studio, nach den CRAMPS, nach paranoiden COASTERS, DOORS und jaulen vom ersten Moment an, ab dem die Nadel auf die Platte trifft.

Dazu kommt Wednesdays Femme Fatale-Raserei mit einem Augenzwinkern auf HOLLY GOLIGHTLY und die BLACK LIPS.

Ihr früher, reduzierter Sound wird nun aufs Ganze ausgebaut - mit Jacks rauer Gitarre und Wednesdays Güterzug-schweren Rhythmen, die auf ,Doom Train" oder ,Neon Blue" durch wackelige Synths und antike Orgeln ergänzt oder auf ,Nothing But Trouble" mit einer Prise Delta Blues gewürzt werden.

Hörner aus der OTIS REDDING und WILSON PICKETT-Ära blasen verführerisch im stampfenden ,What Am I Supposed To Do", während ,New Kind Of Love" mit seinem verführerischen Jazz-Piano auf Zehenspitzen auf die Bühne trippelt und Wednesday ein herrlich lässiges PEGGY LEE-mäßiges ,Fever" ins Mikrofon transportiert.[ENG] London Garage Soul duo return with 3rd album HAUNTED HEART released on Damaged Goods! More Memphis, more Fuzz, more greasy foot-beating, party-greeting, soul-treating maximum RnB.

And yes, more Cowbell. Jack Sandham (Guitar/Keys/Vox) and Wednesday Lyle (Drums/Vox) have straddled the Atlantic with the beat stampede of their songbook so far, but Haunted Heart sees them walk down the dark end of the street, drawing on Atlantic-era Ray Charles and Dusty, while still keeping on creeping on with the sweaty-hand shaky knee Garage rock ear-worms.

From the Sun Studio, Cramps-like swagger of the title track, to the paranoid Coasters swing and Doors-keys of None Of Your Business, Jack's urgent vocals yelp out from the first needle drop, stepping aside for Wednesday's wink of the eye on the Holly Golighty/Black Lips femme-fatale fury of Downlow, which sounds like it's been ripped straight from the beating heart of the Fillmore during the Summer Of Love.

Produced by the band themselves at Soup studios in Limehouse, London, their early raw bare-bones sound has now been fully expanded with Jack's sandpaper grit guitars and Wednesday's freight train rhythms chased down with some glitchy synths and vintage organs (Doom train/Neon blue) as well as a drop of Delta gospel Blues on Nothing But Trouble (also incidentally the first Cowbell song ever to actually feature a Cowbell).

Otis and Pickett-era horns breathe seductively into the swampy-stomp of What Am I Supposed To Do, while New Kind Of Love tiptoes onstage with its alluring smokey jazz piano as Wednesday brings a beautifully casual Peggy Lee type Fever to the microphone.

But it's with the curtain-closers on both sides of wax that Cowbell have really rung in the new, Something's Gotta Give swaps in gently plucked Laurel Canyon vibes, teardrop stained and tie-dyed into a soul stirring torch song.

And just as we're ready to step off this train, the last stop of No Wrong drops us off in the sherbet-sweet swell of a Cowbell classic.

A toast to Percy Sledge and Van Morrison, with a giddy gospel reprise that has Jack and Wednesday promise that they "won't do you no wrong".

And they're damn right. Haunted by name, haunting by nature. Flip it up and start again.

More Cowbell.
 
  • Tracklisting
  • 1.1. HAUNTED HEART
  • 1.2. NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS
  • 1.3. DOWNLOW
  • 1.4. DOOM TRAIN
  • 1.5. NEON BLUE
  • 1.6. SOMETHING'S GOTTA GIVE
  • 1.7. NOTHING BUT TROUBLE
  • 1.8. WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO
  • 1.9. NEW KINDA LOVE
  • 1.10. STOP BREAKING YOUR OWN HEART
  • 1.11. NO WRONG