Ignatz - Ignatz III

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4...according to our Ant on Wed 15 Oct, 2008.

I've not had a duffer yet... No longer are the forces of darkness conspiring against me. Gosh this Ignatz 'III' LP/CD sounds tops. Proper filthy scuzzy blues. Phil has declared that this is what he wanted Jackie O Mother Fucker to sound like. This is totally raw and fucked, primal sounding dirty blues with bits of psychedelic Jimi Hendrix being played under water while Captain Beefheart crawls through the desert, dehydrated seeing a mirage. I particularly like the overall sound here. It's like it's been discovered in a time capsule. Some of the guitar here is blisteringly hot. Scorching in fact. There are moments here that remind us of MV & EE's more space blues freak out's. Well worth a deek in smart fold out sleeve on K-RAA-K.

III projects the atmosphere of Jack London and The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog onto a modern world ruled by technology. Devens brings us the most genuine melancholy contemporary pop music has seen since quite some time. This album leaves the underground scenery that is troubled by trends so often far behind and just shows us the pure essence of what Music has to be: raw emotions put to sound.

With his third full album Bram Devens has once again amazed us with a masterpiece. In his usual brain-melting retro-futuristic blues folk, he summons the devilish spirits of Bukka White, Robert Pete Williams and Sleepy John Estes as seen through the eyes of an adolescent Lou Reed. III tells a fictive and blurred story about the death of music genres. Tragedies built upon screeching, atonal and repetitive melodies. Smelling like a wet dog or a badly dried towel. III breathes a much more sentimental atmosphere compared to Devens’ previous work because of his grousing voice, that is not unlike Skip James’s. After the closing track “Dead By noon”, the tormented soul frees the listener from a heavy personal trip and leaves him dazzled. III projects the atmosphere of Jack London and The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog onto a modern world ruled by technology. Devens brings us the most genuine melancholy contemporary pop music has seen since quite some time. This album leaves the underground scenery that is troubled by trends so often far behind and just shows us the pure essence of what Music has to be: raw emotions put to sound.

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