Part two of the round up of singles for the month of December features the second single from Jack Elfick and Co. in The Dead Shout, the third single from Carol Hodge’s excellent 5th album EffortLess InSecurity, Parliamo have the superb new song Every Ounce, and Ginger returns with his new Wildhearts line up and their new single, while Keeley has an alternative mix of Forever Froze from her second album Beautiful Mysterious and closing off part 2 is Imagine Me Gone from Stephen Hero.
The Dead Shout – Drag You Down
Drag You Down is the second single from ex-Bikini Bottoms guitarist and singer and his latest incarnation, the band The Dead Shout. This hard rockin’ psychobilly single is a packed with country tinged twanging guitars atop a perfect foil, the darkly seductive rhythm section of Eddie Edwards of Klingonz/Demented are Go on stand up bass and Urban Voodoo Machines Gary Voodoo on drums. More please.
Carol Hodge – Small Crumbs
The third single to be lifted from her latest album, EffortLess InSecurity, Small Crumbs is crunching behemoth of a tune, huge Zeppelin-esque guitar riffs enveloping Carol’s magnificent and powerful voice on a song advocating striving for better instead of settling for the small crumbs of the song’s title.
Parliamo – Every Ounce
New single from Parliamo is a song they wrote five years ago and have previously performed at TRNSMT. Every Ounce has the band on top form creating a catchy track with a bouncy rhythm evoking images of spring coming at the end of the darkness of winter.
The Wildhearts – Failure is the Mother of Success
Ginger Wildheart returns with his new Wildhearts line up, and with a new album, Satanic Rites of the Wildhearts on the horizon alongside a UK tour in the spring, Failure is the Mother of Success is a triumphant return, a multi-faceted tune which borrows from every Wildhearts era, including touching on the controversial Endless Nameless era, to create an epic Wildhearts number in the vein of Caprice and Sky Babies.
The Wildhearts
Keeley – Forever Frozen (Magus Mix)
Not one to bask in past glories, Keeley has already got her foot on the accelerator speeding up towards album number three after the release of this years wonderful telling of the story of Inga Maria’s short life which was Beautiful Mysterious. Before moving on she shares this version of the single Forever Froze.
Stephen Hero – Imagine Me Gone
Stephen Hero (the name of the posthumously release autobiographical novel by James Joyce) is the current guise of Kitchens of Distinction’s Patrick Fitzgerald and Imagine Me Gone is a delightfully alluring and thought provoking introduction to forthcoming album Convalescence.