Described as playing psychedelic western blues, I’ll go along with the freak cowboy insinuation, especially when listening to the haunting, guitar tripping opener Where, and later on the far-out Honey. The blues get their conventional, though none-the-less equally atmospheric showcase on third Devilish Deeds. There is at times in lead singer Kirk Dath a deep emotive boom ala Jim Morrison [though in no sense a tonal copy] and I am also reminded of John Grant singing in The Czars. The dual guitar wok of Dath and partner Tad Wilford [Kirk and Tad – these guys are cowboys] is the narrative hook, at times blues-slow – Desert Blues – and at others reverberating and resonating across the broad topography of their wilder musical desert, for example the album’s title track which really does begin like a Doors’ brooding landscape [rattlesnakes instead of lizards] and where the fuzzed guitar eventually erupts, and then goes psychedelic-berserk.
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