The Cave Singers - Invitation Songs

In the release of this surprising sounding long-player, The Cave Singers have created their own unique take on shock and awe.

Album Review by Billy Hamilton | 05 Feb 2008
Album title: Invitation Songs
Artist: The Cave Singers
Label: Matador

For a group containing former members of Pretty Girls Make Graves and Hint-Hint, The Cave Singers are rather unexpected. Instead of expelling a waft of rampant punk-scarred noise-mongering, the trio's debut offering Invitation Songs is a sparse agglomeration of lilting Americana and understated Folk that massages melodic sanguinity into the lugholes of listeners.

Frontman Pete Quirk's mesmeric strains recall a pre-electric era Dylan - bubbling with a simmering affectedness that burrows its way through Seeds Of Night's lucid shuffling - while keen-footed percussion and billowy basslines transform grill-panned cuts Dancing On Our Graves and New Monuments into captivating, Muddy Waters-esque protestations.

A strolling foray of subtle, bluegrass song-structures riddled with earthy instrumentation and an organic sense of harmony, the record climaxes during Oh Christine's staggering conscience clearing blues. In the release of the surprising sounds of this long-player, The Cave Singers have created their own unique take on shock and awe. [Billy Hamilton]

 

Release Date: 11 Feb
The Cave Singers play ABC, Glasgow on 21 Feb

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