Nic Armstrong & the Thieves
Label: New WestGenre: Country, Rock
If you’re wondering where all the mods have gone, Nic Armstrong has your answer. Since winning a songwriting contest in his native England a couple years back, Armstrong has launched a little British Invasion by way of Austin. And that’s not just a fancy classification: Armstrong and his Thieves have circumvented a few decades of Brit-Pop and cock rock and gone straight for the birth of the mod. The result is a roadhouse rhythm and beat in line with the earliest offerings from the Rolling Stones, the Who, the Beatles and, most of all, the Kinks, which in turn was a British working class take on American R&B and Boogie Woogie. Throw in a little country and western and you have something that is reverently old but shakes it as good as new.
If We Can’t Escape, My Pretty [MP3, 2.8MB, 128kbps]
The Finishing Touch [MP3, 3.2MB, 192kbps]
www.newwestrecords.com
www.nicarmstrongandthethieves.com
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