Riding To The Dawn Motorcycle Crew Cold Nose Bleeds Black Mountain Roll Sunday Morning Blues Oh, Evening Everybody's Dog Blues Too Late Runnin' Shoes Cold Hearted Woman Do You Dig It Three Legged Horse
Too blues to be punk - too punk to be blues! That's what visitors to the
Austrian duo's Facebook page are greeted with! It hits the nail on the
head alright. Consisting of drums, harmonica and a slap bass (for that
twist of rockabilly) the boys are unlike any other combo doing the
rounds. Yet with such a minimal ensemble of instruments, the sound is
powerful, in your face boppin' blues with a raucous delivery. Rockin' Blues for the neighbourhood juvies! I remember an Irish busking band from years ago called Dead Plants that released a couple of albums back in the late 90's/early noughties. DeadBeatz kinda remind me of them. Only the stripped back "nice" feeling you get with the skiffle of the Plants is replaced with the feeling you get when you walk into a backstreet tattoo parlour in the dodgier end of town. Excitement and danger. The sounds on here are gritty, slap bass-drenched edgy blues with enough bop to appeal to the (non-purist) rockabillies and with enough energy to be accepted with open arms by the psychobilly brigade who are anything but purists like their rockabilly cousins. You can snap up the album directly from the band via their bandcamp page. It's available on both CD and coloured vinyl with no two the same! Put that in your collector's pipe and smoke it (and brag about it on Psychoholic!).
