Right, gather ’round you bunch of misfits and lovers of the ungodly raw. Here’s a tale that’s been thrumming through the back alleys of the music scene, straight outta Manchester’s murky depths and North Carolina’s bluesy swamps.
The legendary Harry Stafford, the spitfire frontman of that unhinged post-punk beast called Inca Babies, has teamed up with that US-born, Brazil-bred madman Marco Butcher, who plays the blues as if he’s guttin’ it alive.
These two outlaws have slung together an LP that’ll melt your face clean off, aptly christened ‘We Are The Perilous Men’, churned out by the renegades over at Black Lagoon Records.
To whet those insatiable appetites, these dudes dropped a monster of a single called ‘The Rules of the House’, a track so murky and vile it’d make the devil blush, followed by ‘Walk Among The Spectres’. Now this ain’t no lullaby – it’s a macabre dance with death, and the music vid? Shot in the damn near ancient Southern Cemetery, the kind of haunting place where you can practically feel the cold fingers of the departed brush against you. Victorian playground turned public park, this place invites the daring to – you guessed it – Walk among the damn Spectres.
Remember the aural carnage of their ‘Bone Architecture’ album from ’21? Well, these bad boys are back at it, shooting musical madness across the Atlantic, from North Carolina to Manchester, as if they’re possessed or something. They crafted this monster of an album in some sort of psychic fever dream.
“When we decided to release the album back in January, we had to decide on ten tracks (now eleven) out of a possible twenty. We agonised long and hard, but it was actually quite a satisfying endeavour because we were unaware just how many great tracks we had and that, if we kept this up, there must surely be another album in a couple of years, but that we’ll probably have to choose ten out of a possible forty tracks by then,” says Harry Stafford.
“This was also a moment we both realised that we had had such a great time working together on these tracks, which had now effortlessly merged into the great album, so we spent at least an hour feeling very pleased with ourselves.”
“I really like the fact the that we left behind all those rock music school rules and jumped into this new world of freedom and ideas, which could take us anywhere as long as we both are having a good time with it. So I guess I would say that the experimental part of it is my fave,” says Marco Butcher.
“I try to not overthink music as much as possible. For me, being able to play it and having fun with it is the paycheck already!’
As of today, if you’ve got the guts, grab ‘We Are The Perilous Men’ from all those rebellious platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, and Bandcamp. Word on the street is, it’s dropping on pitch-black vinyl for the old souls and digitally for the kids. Dive in, if you dare.
TRACK LIST
1. Walk Among the Spectres
2. Stanislaw
3. We are the Perilous Men
4. Unreal thing
5. On the Edge of Music
6. Get Outside
7. Rules of the House
8. Torch Girl Amore
9. Long Shadow Man
10. Faces in your World
11. The King of all Moves
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