Gallon Drunk, Nambucca, Holloway, London

What/Why:

Acclaimed British band Gallon Drunk return with the dynamic new album, “The Road Gets Darker From Here”. Recorded at Clouds Hills Recordings in Hamburg during the summer of 2011, produced by Johann Scheerer (Faust/Robots In Disguise), the band bring the considerable power of their renowned live performances to the new record.

Featuring founder frontman and former Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds member James Johnston (vocals, organ, guitar, harmonica, piano, and bass), Terry Edwards (bass, saxophone and percussion) and Ian White (drums, percussion), the trio have refocused their utterly distinctive musical vision with a collection of impassioned songs, imbued with pure mania, despair and abandonment.

With the band members’ own recent experiences, playing and recording with the likes of Lydia Lunch’s Big Sexy Noise, Faust, Nick Cave, Tom Waits and The Tindersticks, this has brought an open minded freshness to the album.

From the insistent, slide guitar driven ‘1,000 Years’, through the exhilaratingly sleazy, deranged rock ‘n’ roll of ‘You Made Me’ (the first 7” inch single to be released from the album), the menacing melancholia of ‘Stuck In My Head’ (featuring French singer Marion Andrau of Underground Railroad), to the desperate eruption of guitar fury of ‘Hanging On’, this is classic, unfettered Gallon Drunk.

“Gallon Drunk? Cool as fuck.” – Nick Cave

Make no mistake – Gallon Drunk are back!