All The Saints
Fire On Corridor X

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· Named after a section of the I-22 highway connecting the trio’s native
Alabama to Mississippi, the cryptic title track is a hypnotic mind-meld of
their primary influences, welding a Loopsized spacegroove to The Gun
Club’s lyrical bite. “That song is about where we grew up,” explains singer
and guitarist Matt Lambert. “I try to have a little bit of where we’re from
in everything we do, without flying rebel flags and playing alt-country. The
paradox of our band is that we’re from the South, but you’d never be able
to guess.”
· Lambert, bassist / co-vocalist Titus Brown and drummer Jim Crook
moved to Atlanta in neighbouring Georgia in 2004, attracted by the
bohemian state capitol’s liberal atmosphere and a fertile music scene that
has spawned the likes of Deerhunter and Black Lips. All The Saints
came into existence a year later, their moniker inspired partly by an old
Verbena song and partly by an outsized fleur-de-lis saints symbol which a
tramp had spraypainted gold and sold to the nascent combo at one of their
early gigs. This duality is carried through album stand-outs ‘Sheffield’ and
‘Leeds’, which highlight the group’s impressive range. The former is a
controlled acid bath, brimful of scathing asides about small town attitudes
and repression, the latter wraps its guarded existentialism in a gently
reverbed jangle. “Leeds and Sheffield are both cities on the interstate in
Alabama,” notes the committed Anglophile, who was turned on to My
Bloody Valentine, Ride and The Jesus And Mary Chain by an indie
radio station his elder sister used to tape in the early ‘90s. “We’d see these
signs on the drive