Backsliders - Bonecrunch (2020)

Tracklist

01. Tea and Sugar Train
02. Dog in the Fight
03. Bad Recruit
04. Mass Destruction
05. Big Dreams and Open Country
06. Pass for Jesus
07. Obake (The Ghost)
08. No Know-How
09. Tombstoning
10. John Prine
11. You Don't Love Me
12. Shake Em On Down


The 12 tracks represent a band with varied musical influences-swamp-blues feels on 'Dog in the Fight' and 'Tea & Sugar Train', intense blues riffs on 'No Know-How' and 'Bad Recruit'; surf sounds on 'Tombstoning'; to the eccentric 'Obake' [Ghost] where 1960s Japanese soundtrack music meets dub-reggae.

"We [Rob Hirst and I] wrote this album over a period of a few years, which has resulted in a really diverse collection of songs. As always though, we tend to try to glue it all together with a gritty blues-based sonic aesthetic." Dom Turner

'It's been a joy writing and recording these 12 new songs. The tracks went down in one or two takes, at our favourite Sydney studio, with minimal overdubs. As the name suggests, Bonecrunch summons Backsliders' raw elements - strong vocal & guitar melodies, urgent beats and blazing harp - then blends and bends them into something else again. Best of all, the album has a restless energy and broad dynamic range which replicates the on-stage power of the band'. Rob Hirst

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