Bare Hunter – Dry Rot EP
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| Bare Hunter - Dry Rot EP |
Release Date: Out Now
Who fancies some dirty blues rock
from London town? Tough, that’s what you’re getting. Trio Bare Hunter have
unleashed their Dry Rot EP on the world and it kicks off with the furiously
paced ‘She Said’ which has all the snarl and swagger of The Hives mixed with
the uber-cool of the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. The rumble, the thud and the
wail all mingle to a tumultuous level and I’m in love, I want to have their
babies and we’re only one track in. ‘Cash Money’ is a more scratchy, bluesy
affair with a harmonica siren call and that Jon Spencer (or is it Boss Hogg)
tone is there again mixed with the sound of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s grandsons playing
around in the family vault.
On ‘Kilamanjaro’ Bare Hunter’s
psychedelic influences start to shine through as some plodding drums and
atmospheric guitars stumble from a smoky room in nothing by a pair of skinny
jeans and a smile. There are brief moments when this sounds like a song from a
particularly freaky episode of the Mighty Boosh or a noodling Kula Shaker
number but with more of a primal rumble to it before it explodes in to some
frenetic, amp kicking garage rock’n’roll. EP title track ‘Dry Rot’ brings
things to a close with a bluesy swamp stomp that sounds like the kind of thing
Seasick Steve would jam out with Electric Six on the soundtrack to the sequel
to ‘O Brother Where Art Thou’. That love at first sight feeling lasts through
all four tracks on this EP so I think this might just be the real thing – I’m
going to introduce Bare Hunter to my parents after a lustful weekend in Dover.
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