Description
Born of the voices of past lives and baptized in the dust bowl dirt, the dark roots music of the HEATHEN APOSTLES harkens back to a by gone chapter of American history while firmly keeping one foot planted in the present-day city of Los Angeles. One Indian summer evening, femme fatale bellower Mather Louth (Radio Noir) and punk rock veteran Chopper Franklin (The Cramps, Charley Horse), quickly uncovered a mutual appreciation for murder balladry, Americana, and memento mori. Soon, the HEATHEN APOSTLES surfaced. The landscape was further tilled with the addition of Thomas Lorioux (The Kings of Nuthinââ¬â¢) on the upright bass. The Heathen's debut release, Boot Hill Hymnal, seeks to answer a question posed long ago by Blind Willie Johnson- just what is the soul of a man' (...Or, as the case may be here, a woman with a thousand-yard stare.) The resulting collection of songs is complex, catchy, and wholly cohesive to the Apostles' ghost town.
'Red Brick Dust', the album's powerful opener, paints a supernatural plea for protection against the most primal of evils. In 'The
Reckoning', Louth tells the terrifying tale of a lone miscreant hell-bent on destruction, building from a restrained whisper to an unholy crescendo of chaos, punctuated by primal screams. However, the Apostles are hardly a one-note wonder with regards to nefarious subject matter, as witnessed by the rousing foot-stomper 'Forget-Me-Not'. The band also ensures to leave listeners desiring a second book of Heathen hymnals with the forlorn lullaby closer 'Lonesome Whistle', its final chords drifting off like a lone tumbleweed into the fading sunset.' Boot Hill Hymnal captures the essence of the HEATHEN APOSTLES modus operandi: Southern gothic imagery surrounded by haunting, minor-chord banjo, mandolin and violin melodies, helmed by the voice of an evocative Indigo child, unstuck in time.
TRACK LISTING:
1. Red Brick Dust
2. Dark Was The Night
3. Forget-Me-Not
4. Never Forever
5. The Reckoning
6. The Dark Pines
7. It All Came Down
8. Murderer of Souls
9. Darkness of Dawn
10. Lonesome Whistle
Additional Details
Label: Ratchet Blade Records
Genre: Pop/Rock
Run Time: 43 mins
Release Date: 11/12/13
UPC: 798304278323
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