This release from Rhode Island’s Detroit Rebellion offers four tunes of garage blues with a cool, live in the studio sound. While the simplistic approach at the heart of the subgenre usually relies on plenty of slide guitar antics with which to engage the audience, these guys are a little different. Yes, they have slide guitar, but it doesn’t always provide the dominant feature. They may not have the upbeat rock ‘n’ blues grooves of Black Pistol Fire; nor do they ever go for the jugular in the way that first two Dead Exs records do, but in their understated way, these four tunes have their own sense of attitude, something heightened further by the basic recording techniques.
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New video from Aussies The Blackwater Fever (NSFW)
Since they’ve already supported the likes of Tame Impala, Birds of Tokyo and the mighty Jon Spencer, Aussie garage-blues outfit The Blackwater Fever have already received regular airplay on the alternative station Triple J.
BROCKLEY FOREST – Brockley Forest EP
Whether it involves cranking out sweaty rockers like The Dead Exs or tackling tunes with a much more panoramic (and perhaps more commercial) feel as per The Black Keys, the stripped back nature of the blues duo comes with a surprising amount of musical mileage. With relatively no time for fancy flourishes, the garage blues genre is often – although not entirely – reliant on a sense grit to make the songs stand proud…and when it comes to grit, there’s plenty to be found on this debut EP by Brockley Forest.