DBUK (Denver Broncos UK) will release their new dark roots LP Songs Nine Through Sixteen, the follow up to their first album (Songs One Through Eight) on their label, SCACUNINCORPORATED, Friday, January 25th on CD and LP. The DBUK consists of the four core members of Denver’s Slim Cessna’s Auto Club, Munly J Munly, Slim Cessna, Lord Dwight Pentacost and Rebecca Vera. SCAC have spent the last two decades honing a lethal mix of country blues, gospel shouting, rock & roll and folk, becoming one of the best-known, critically acclaimed bands to rise from the musical community that brought us 16 Horsepower and Wovenhand.
DBUK leave shortly for a full European/Scandanavian/Russian tour followed by a US Tour in March, dates will be announced shortly.
From their press release: “DBUK exists on it’s own musical plane. Haunting, warped murder ballads come with a louche, anti-spiritual cast. Limerence and longing co-exist with casual cruelty in compositions that feature a remarkable amount of detail of the natural world; they often begin sparingly, building into an ecstatic reverberation of instruments and voices. Reverb and shake rattles abound, lending a spaghetti western vibe on songs written by Munly J Munly, whose dark humor fills the record lest anyone mistake the menace for malice.”
On the first single, “In San Francisco Bay”, melodica unwinds a tango melody combined with four-part vocals, hopscotched by truly demented chants. The arrangements on Songs Nine Through Sixteen are complex, layered, menacing and gorgeous. Standouts include “From the Estate of John Denver”, “Bonnie Clyde the Big Bull Hen of the Women’s Prison”, “Deerslayer” and “The Misrepresentation of the Thompson Gun”; the latter wouldn’t have been out of place on the standout Nick Cave album Murder Ballads.
Tracklist:
1. Bonnie Clyde, The Big-Bull-Hen Of The Women’s Prison
2. Deerslayer
3. From The Estate Of John Denver
4. In San Francisco Bay
5. Coca-Colonialism
6. The Misrepresentation Of The Thompson Gun
7. It’s Killing Me
8. And God Bless You
