The Dantes - Out Of The Dark EP
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| The Dantes - Out Of The Dark EP |
Release Date: 3rd July 2014
When I was just a lad growing up
in the Westcountry, everywhere I went there was someone strumming an acoustic
guitar and that was quite an exciting prospect. Then you start to realise that
just because someone is holding an acoustic guitar it doesn't make them a good
musician and it doesn't stop them being a douche. That said, Plymouth duo the
Dantes are two men with an acoustic guitar so they run the risk of going
double-douche but I have faith in them. And that faith is almost immediately
repaid with opening track, 'Out Of The Dark', which starts off all James
Morrison before the full backing band kick in and the song goes a little more
Paolo Nutini but with a rumbling, brooding edge that Brother & Bones would
be happy with.
Adam and Jack roll in to the
second song, 'Make You Know', with a more sombre and bleak feel that slowly
builds in to a Richard Hawley tinged tune full of harmonies and undulating
rhythms that get your head bobbing. 'Seasons' is up next starting like a Paul
Weller track and then developing in to a male version of the Indigo Girls with
soulful harmonies and a gentle country hue. Final track 'Time' is somewhere
between Arctic Monkeys and Brother & Bones which is no bad place to be as
the agitated guitars nudge the strained, impassioned vocals along. The Dantes
have got something that will get many a cosy winters pub jumping and will sound
delightful drifting across a summer's field from a tent full of cider fuelled
revellers - quite a combination. They're definitely not douches though, that's a fact.
More information: https://www.facebook.com/thedantesuk