We hope that The Music Trust can be trusted, because they’ve just given ‘Suspicion’ a great review. Check out a small portion below, or the full review here.
Often when a largely instrumental group adds a vocalist, the lyrics are secondary or even cursory. But that is definitely not the case on this album. The dark and brooding lyrics have a sophisticated songwriter’s sensibility and a poetic underpinning. These are not clichéd pop lyrics. They are mysterious, dark, atmospheric and unpredictable. There is something of Leonard Cohen and Nick Cave here that works perfectly in the eerie tango and western filmic environments. Song titles like Shadow of a Dead Man and Smoking Gun entice the listener into dangerous and chilling sonic and lyric narratives. There is humour here too while enigmatic elements of surprise in the instrumentation keep the listener engaged.