How can
you describe The Rag N Bone Man?
Brutal is
one word.
Uncompromising
is another.
And
brutally uncompromising are two that go together rather nicely when
you think about it.
On first
listen some may consider it a primal scream of a rant, but I would
advise that they keep with it.
In among
the lo fi howls of rage, the distorted guitar and thumping drum is a
naked soul looking to engage.
Okay the
engagement might leave you with a burst ear drum, but that's a small
price to pay.
There's
not many doing this sort of one man band thing, and in Scotland I can
probably count them on all the fingers of the one hand of someone
born in Ayrshire.
That will
be two for those who don't know.
Unless of
course it's the left hand and then it's six.
Of the
two that I know of there is the also excellent Homesick Aldo who
musically could be thought of as the Dr Jekyll to to the Rag N Bone
Man Mr Hyde.
There
have been some whispers that Headbutts & Uppercuts could be Jack
White at his most deranged, and while there is that to it, you would
really have to take Jack to the outer limits of derangement and then
kick him hard another couple of feet down the road a bit to come
close to what is going on here.
It's the
blues, but an angry version of it that is probably the colour of a
dark bruise.
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