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Dark Angel<\/span><\/p>\n

Self Produced<\/span><\/p>\n

Genre \u2013 Rock \/ Blues<\/span><\/p>\n

Star rating 8\/10<\/span><\/p>\n

This is the South London rockers\u2019 eleventh album and it\u2019s a good one. This release followed their successful appearance on the Bourbon Street Jazz and Blues stage at Glastonbury. Here they take the gloves off and give us a real rock feast, full of main songwriter Gary Boners\u2019 dark parables of devils, angels, bad spirits and voodoo, death, disease and destruction- to lighten the mood there are some excellent side dishes of country and Latin as well. They\u2019ve made several albums and good ones at that, but this is \u2018the\u2019 one; their best. Bandleader Boner certainly understands programming; the pacing is very good throughout. The album kicks in, lifts off, and moves straight into top gear; with the ZZ Top flavoured opener \u2018Too Tired to Pray\u2019 and it\u2019s a cracker \u2013Boner\u2019s deep baritone growl sets the dark mood for the whole show \u2018Let me tell the difference between pleasure and pain, some people would tell you that they\u2019re both the same\u2019 <\/em>he growls \u2013 it\u2019s a very dark account of spiritual exhaustion. It works; this track has got it all, and its FM friendly, but not \u2018too\u2019<\/em> friendly, some on the team would have preferred a less 80\u2019s drum sound, but it is what it is. \u00a0The Roadhouse girls, Mandie G, Kelly Marie Hobbs and Suzi D are in very good form; it suggests that they worked very hard at those vocals, and its paid dividends. On guitar Danny Boy Gwylm has to be one of the most tasteful players around, he lays great slide and regular guitar on this opener and manages to be both tasteful and kicking the same time \u2013 \u2018Too Tired to Pray\u2019, look out for that one! It rocks and it rolls as well.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A neat piece of programming and the album moves into Country \u2013 \u2018Rainmaker\u2019 \u2013 \u2018Rainmaker\u2019s coming\u2019 <\/em>goes the chorus, it\u2019s catchy, it\u2019s a song for driving, and, being replete with Danny\u2019s excellent country licks \u2013 is very good \u2013 Roots and Country radio stations should get this one programmed in. Track three is the album\u2019s noire epic, the Title track \u2018Dark Angel\u2019\u2013 Boner paints a sound picture; a dark lonely road at late twilight, death and destruction all around, (so it\u2019s definitely South London), there\u2019s fear, anxiety and distrust with only a dark angel to look to for hope. \u2018Now on this dusty highway, with the legion of the damned, my friends they all just spit on me\u2026\u2019<\/em> sings Boner; its dark indeed\u2026with lashings of electric guitar and the very nice touch of some acoustic nicely placed neatly in the mix. It\u2019s a very good track. The excellent cover by the renowned Album cover artist Vaughan Oliver was possibly inspired by this track. The cover picture is enigmatic, as if we\u2019re in motion and travelling a tree lined highway at night, a menacing figure appears through the trees, it\u2019s fascinating \u2013 think \u2018Blair Witch\u2019 in colour and you\u2019ll get a clue. <\/span><\/p>\n

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The title track is followed by a song with the classic Bo Diddley beat; the voodoo tinged \u2018Swamp Girl\u2019, great live track this; then it\u2019s back to the country for \u2018Tornado\u2019a catchy country-rock song with another dark lyric. Moving to the close we find the most commercial track on the set its \u2018So Over You\u2019, a Santana-ish \/Latin flavoured tune that Kelly Marie Hobbs had a hand in writing. The penultimate track has the great title \u2018Working Class Gospel Drinking Blues\u2019; you really can\u2019t miss with a title like that \u2013 it\u2019s good and has a catchy chorus that recalls Pink Floyd tune.\u00a0 The album closes with a re-recording of a Roadhouse live favourite \u2018Tellin\u2019 Lies\u2019 it\u2019s a butt-kicking end to a very good set with Danny Gwilym\u2019s guitar an outstanding feature throughout.<\/span><\/p>\n

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