The Duke Spirit - Sky is Mine (2017)
The Duke Spirit - Sky is Mine
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks)+cue, log, front cover | 35:04 min | 225 MB
Label: Ex Voto Records – EXVOTOCD2 | Tracks: 09 | Rls.date: 2017
Indie Rock, Garage Rock, Female Vocal
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks)+cue, log, front cover | 35:04 min | 225 MB
Label: Ex Voto Records – EXVOTOCD2 | Tracks: 09 | Rls.date: 2017
Indie Rock, Garage Rock, Female Vocal
Following 2016's acclaimed album KIN and EP Serenade, The Duke Spirit march on with poignant new album Sky Is Mine. Produced by the band themselves, and mixed by Bruno Ellingham (Massive Attack), it also features guest vocals by long time friends Josh T Pearson (Lift to Experience) on the woozy How Could, How Come, and Duke Garwood on album closer Broken Dream. Each song approaches, revises, steps back and looks for humanity on a planetary scale. From the shimmering melodies and prodigious power of tracks like 'Magenta' and 'See Power' to the energy-fuelled psychedelic rock of 'Houses' and 'Yoyo', the album flows with a dark, beguiling grandeur with the majestic allure of Liela Moss' crystal vocals. Sky Is Mine looks at Harm, Control and Lack of love but burns through it to find the essential human heart. Talking about the inspiration behind the album, front-woman Liela Moss explains: "With feet cold and wet from standing in the sludgy shit of rhetoric, illegitimacy and fear that is the world we tread upon, the album snapshots a palpitating love that bursts with, and values, Life. Half-finished sentences, which describe shards of arrogance, egomania and cruelty are dissolved by being pissed on from a great height with a stream of golden, glowing benevolence."
Moving from brash, bluesy beginnings to a wide-ranging sound that incorporated indie pop, Motown, and shoegaze influences, the Duke Spirit formed when singer/harmonica player Liela Moss met guitarist/keyboardist/singer Luke Ford at art school. Moss was studying photography, and Ford painting, but the pair decided to ditch school and move to London to focus on music. Once they arrived, their friend Toby Butler joined them as bassist/percussionist, and one of their roommates, Dan Higgins, became their guitarist. When drummer Olly Betts joined their ranks, the lineup was complete. The band recorded their first 7" under the name Solomon, but switched to the Duke Spirit for their first EP, Darling, You're Mean, which was released in 2003 by City Rockers. Later that year, the label released the critically acclaimed Roll, Spirit, Roll EP.
The band continued to tour and record, with the intention of releasing their debut album in fall 2004; however, City Rockers folded early that year, leaving the Duke Spirit without a home for their music. Loog signed the band soon after and released Cuts Across the Land in the U.K. in spring 2005. Startime International picked up their U.S. distribution and introduced the Duke Spirit to the States by releasing the album in early 2006 and sending the band off on tour with Ted Leo & the Pharmacists. That year, the band also released the limited-edition EP Covered in Love, which featured their versions of songs by Jesse Mae Hemphill, Arthur Lee, and Desmond Dekker. The Duke Spirit also worked on a collaboration with UNKLE, which they recorded with producer Chris Goss in his Joshua Tree, California studio; the track appeared on UNKLE's 2007 album.
The Duke Spirit worked with Goss again on their second album, Neptune, which arrived in spring 2008. For 2011's fittingly named Bruiser, the band opted for a heavier approach.
The Duke Spirit went on hiatus starting in 2012, with Moss and Butler pursuing the electro-pop project Roman Remains and Betts drumming for the band Furs. When the band regrouped in 2014, they reunited with Cuts Across the Land producer and former Cocteau Twins member Simon Raymonde, who helped the band – which now included new bassist Rich Fownes – craft a more sensual, luminous sound for their fourth album, 2016's Kin. ~ Heather Phares
TRACKLIST
01. Magenta 03:17
02. Bones of Proof 04:58
03. See Power 04:48
04. In Breath 04:18
05. Houses 03:56
06. How Could, How Come 03:24
07. YoYo 03:10
08. The Contaminant 03:55
09. Broken Dreams 03:19
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The Duke Spirit / Sky Is Mine
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