Bias alert! These chaps are from Skye, and therefore I’m incapable of disliking them. This, of course, is made super easy by the fact that they’re awesome.
“Folk-noir”, they call it: “a litany of small-town crimes and dark romances that is fascinating and irresistible”. Whatever it is, the music of The Dead Man’s Waltz is dark and theatrical – evidenced by the moody, and not a wee bit deranged, video to the band’s first single, “Cry on Me”.
There’s a very Hebridean fatalism to The Dead Man’s Waltz – there’s no po-faced stoicism, but it’s the kind of attitude that considers a positive answer to the question “how are you?” to be “no’ too bad”. And The Dead Man’s Waltz are no’ too bad at all.
The Dead Man’s Waltz’s self-titled debut LP will be out on the 27th October, and can be preordered from their bandcamp page. Click through for a preview via the wonders of soundcloud.
The Dead Man’s Waltz by the Dead Man’s Waltz
