The Duke Spirit - The Step And The Walk
By their standards this is business as usual, but by any other it's a track of uncomplicated and disaffected excellence.
Already well-respected, and boasting one of the most distinctive singers of our time, The Duke Spirit should be regular festival headliners by now, but they've yet to gain the full recognition their hard work and single-mindedness deserve. Ripped from the Stooges-do-freak-folk seam, the latest single to be taken from forthcoming album 'Neptune' strengthens the band's cause still further.
By their standards this is business as usual, but by any other it's a track of uncomplicated and disaffected excellence. A low-slung and dirty bass and some ghostly howling usher in a verse that pays tribute to Nirvana's 'About A Girl', to which Liela Moss's trademark smoky vocal adds further edge. With a gutsy and defiant chorus that demands to be grabbed by the coat tails, the track leads us on some kind of victory march to who knows where, and who cares? We're behind them all the way. The ante is then upped for a rapturous finale that'll have even the most stubborn of curmudgeons singing for the cause. If it doesn't happen for this band soon, the world is deaf. Fact.
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