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The Glorious Dead [Digipak]  -  CD

Artist:

The Heavy

| SKU:  6209259
Release Date:  8/21/2012
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Songs

 
1. Can't Play Dead(4:22)
2. Curse Me Good(4:57)
3. What Makes a Good Man?(3:46)
4. The Big Bad Wolf(3:22)
5. Be Mine(4:14)
6. Same Ol'(4:01)
7. Just My Luck(3:02)
8. The Lonesome Road(3:59)
9. Don't Say Nothing(3:38)
10. Blood Dirt Love Stop(3:56)

Details

Format
CD(1)
Release Date
8/21/2012
Original Release Date
4/1/2012
Length
39 minutes , 17 seconds
Genre
R&B & Soul
Label
Counter Records
Studio/Live
n/a
Mono/Stereo
Stereo
UPC
5021392750125

Release Notes

The Glorious Dead [Digipak]: Release Notes: Muze 
Engineers: Hal Ritson; The Heavy; Gabriel Roth; Rob Dowell; Paul Corkett.Audio Mixers: The Heavy; Paul Corkett.Recording information: Replay Heaven.The Heavy's third studio album, 2012's The Glorious Dead is a bombastic acid rock, funk, and blues-soaked album that sounds like the illegitimate offspring of the Black Keys and Gnarls Barkley. In that sense, it builds nicely upon the Heavy's previous work and should please fans of the band's quirky take on rootsy soul-influenced music. Showcasing singer Kelvin Swaby's trademark rough, nasally yawp, the Heavy seem to love building songs around riffs of low-end electric guitar twang, booming basslines, and wickedly boneheaded, backwoods drumbeats. They also punctuate these sweaty, red-eyed arrangements with bursts of trombones, trumpets, strings, and backing vocals. The band kicks things off with the horror movie-inspired zombie-gospel number "Can't Play Dead," featuring Swaby doing his best swamp blues-style shout over a fuzzed-out electric guitar riff and plodding blues-rock beat backed by what sounds like a choir of female divas. It's a grand moment of over the top rock that perfectly sets the tone for such similarly exuberant and soulfully campy moments as the marching band funk of "Big Bad Wolf" and the driving, James Bond theme-sounding "Don't Say Nothing." Elsewhere, the Heavy delve into various punk, dance, and blues-influenced sounds including the manic garage rock meets mariachi band anthem "Just My Luck" and "What Makes a Good Man?," which splits the difference between the retro hip-hop soul of Kanye West's "Gold Digger" and "Discoth¿que"-era U2. ~ Matt Collar

Credits

Performer The Heavy
Producer(s) The Heavy; Paul Corkett

Customer Reviews

The Glorious Dead [Digipak] - CD (1 out of 1)
Best band you never heard of
5
Posted by: from Houston, TX on 04/13/2013If you like music that moves you and lyrics that provoke some thought and an occasional reason to laugh out load, this is the CD to add to your collection. These guys are good listening all the way through the CD.

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Editorial Reviews

The Glorious Dead [Digipak]: MUZE Review
Muze

Q (Magazine) (p.102) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "The ever-present brass and gutbusting vocals are up against sledgehammer riffs, hints of horror soundtracks and down-home Southern rock."Mojo (Publisher) (p.88) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he heartbroken balladry of 'Curse Me Good' and lush velveteen swoop of 'Be Mine' have a nimble mastery of light and shade their many throwback rivals would kill for."