Woodenbox With A Fistful Of Fivers - Hang the Noose

Scotland's love affair with American country stretches much further back than Sons and Daughters' Johnny Cash fixations, but it is at this crossroads that Woodenbox With A Fistful of Fivers can be found. Their new single on King Tut's Recordings is a classic tale of a Southern state hanging, with rolling snare rhythms, and lonesome, reverberant whistling. The town's collective culpability for the lynching of a young man whose guilt is ambiguous adds a dark, unexpected twist to the Morricone-esque spaghetti riffs, rich brass harmonies and Cajun compliments, snatching the track away from pastiche. Catchier than a beard in a thorn bush.