A lot of people get Londoners The Duke Spirit mixed up with dreadlocked Rufus Wainwright-a-like Duke Special, which must irk them, since they’ve been carving fairly idiosyncratic, blues-powered garage-rock for four years now.
Their debut album, 2005’s Cuts Across The Land, clearly didn’t set many tills ringing because the foursome are releasing the follow-up, Neptune, without the major-label backing of Loog/Polydor. It’s an infinitely stronger album, however, bolstered by punchier tunes and benefiting from a throaty production roar courtesy of Queens Of The Stone Age cohort Chris Goss.
Send A Little Love Token is not the lead-off single – that honour goes to The Step And The Walk, out 28 January – but it is neatly illustrative of the album’s self-assured dip and swagger, with vocalist Liela Moss coming on like a blonde PJ Harvey, all glowering attitude and shimmying blues intensity.
9:29 AM | 05/12/2007
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