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defrogI’m not entirely sure yet, but it’s possible that the best album I’ve heard this year is going to be by a Nashville underground legend so obscure that even I’ve never heard of him. And I’m from there.
I’m speaking of Dave Cloud.
He and his band the Gospel Of Power have been around since the mid-90s, and he’s built a rep at the Springwater Supper Club And Lounge (a classic dive bar in West End) as a sort of garage-rocker/karaoke-crooner/psychedelic-shaman.
He’s also been in a couple of Harmony Korine movies, if that helps. Also, if yr old enough to remember those Budweiser commercials with that band playing bespoke instruments (also directed by Korine), that was Cloud as their Col. Parker-type manager.
Anyway, DC&TGOP have a new album out, and thanks to a distribution deal with Fire Records in the UK (and an ad in Uncut magazine – never underestimate the power of advertising), I managed to find out about it. And as I say, it’s possibly the best album I’ve heard this year.
Musically, it’s lo-fi garage-rock, with Cloud’s words and vocal style a sprawling blend of Beefheart, Mark E Smith, Kid Congo Powers and Johnny Dowd. Which means it’s in the same ballpark as The Fall, but weirder. Or at least sleazier.
Oh, hell, just listen.
Granted, this kind of thing is not for everyone. But it’s sure for me.
Sharing the Gospel,
This is dF
I’m speaking of Dave Cloud.
He and his band the Gospel Of Power have been around since the mid-90s, and he’s built a rep at the Springwater Supper Club And Lounge (a classic dive bar in West End) as a sort of garage-rocker/karaoke-crooner/psychedelic-shaman.
He’s also been in a couple of Harmony Korine movies, if that helps. Also, if yr old enough to remember those Budweiser commercials with that band playing bespoke instruments (also directed by Korine), that was Cloud as their Col. Parker-type manager.
Anyway, DC&TGOP have a new album out, and thanks to a distribution deal with Fire Records in the UK (and an ad in Uncut magazine – never underestimate the power of advertising), I managed to find out about it. And as I say, it’s possibly the best album I’ve heard this year.
Musically, it’s lo-fi garage-rock, with Cloud’s words and vocal style a sprawling blend of Beefheart, Mark E Smith, Kid Congo Powers and Johnny Dowd. Which means it’s in the same ballpark as The Fall, but weirder. Or at least sleazier.
Oh, hell, just listen.
Granted, this kind of thing is not for everyone. But it’s sure for me.
Sharing the Gospel,
This is dF
