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Drumming For Pistols

Puerto Muerto

Drumming For Pistols

Second helping of alt country and swamp rock from Chicago husband and wife team Tim Kelley and Christa Meyer

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6.7

Label
Fire
UK Release date
08/02/2010
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  1. 8.0 |   NME

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  2. 7.0 |   Blurt

    ..it's hard to pin down the precise moment this Chicago-based married duo makes its Great Leap Forward, but by the time it has cast 13 strange and different spells, you just know it's happened
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  3. 7.0 |   The Digital Fix

    An album of biblical simplicity and intensity, this is a rich and morose seam which can be reliably mined for dirt, destruction and despair
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  4. 7.0 |   Clash

    ...the darker lyrical tones that permeated their earlier albums have been replaced with deliberate evocations of revolution
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  5. 6.0 |   The List

    The record warms as it progresses, and ears are likely to follow suit
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