'Preacher Blues' by Le Skeleton Band is a heart-warming and fresh-faced variation on the indie-rock theme - an album rammed with fine songs performed with great vision and true originality.
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'Preacher Blues' by Le Skeleton Band is a heart-warming and fresh-faced variation on the indie-rock theme - an album rammed with fine songs performed with great vision and true originality.
'Preacher Blues' is unlike most things you're likely to come across; a kind of cross between Tom Waits and Captain Beefheart, Le Skeleton Band set out their wonderfully 'colourful' and enticing stall with some amazingly 'obtuse' writing and 'angular' musicianship. Le Skeleton make the unusual acceptable, they don't conform but they certainly enthral! Along with the more normal electric and acoustic instrumental armoury Le Skeleton Band employ rather more diverse instruments such as glockenspiel, banjo and melodica to enhance their ethereal jazzy blues songs, the result is dynamically innovative and annoyingly cool. 'Preacher Blues' is as refreshing as it is individual, as rewarding as it is different! Le Skeleton Band's music, I suppose, borders on roots folk with a contemporary and unexpected twist; it's intriguing and it's exciting!
'Preacher Blues' by Le Skeleton Band is spiky yet fluid, discord meets harmony, the rhythmic and syncopated meets the time challenged! It's a brilliant mix of time signatures and crazy beats, a wonderfully original melee of modernistic composition and traditional sounds - a witches brew of great vibes that tug and pull at the senses whilst providing a thought provoking and evocative soundscape. All-in-all, 'Preacher Blues' by Le Skeleton Band is a gentle mind-fuck of great songs delivered with skill, precision and slightly off-kilter imagination - a really tasty piece of work that's as different as it is compelling - excellent stuff!!
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