RECORDING in an old school in Beacon, upstate New York, the Felice Brothers have been learning new tricks since 2009’s Yonder Is The Clock.
Once these Americana brothers from the Catskill Mountains were a raggedy outlaw update on the Sixties’ folk outpourings of Bob Dylan, apeing his nasal drawl while lacing their songs with the drunken abandon of The Pogues.
Now they have flown their old converted chicken coop in Palenville and discovered hip-hop, Eighties’ synthesisers, Muscle Shoals horns, industrial found sounds and a taunting school choir.
They’re still woozy, vaudevillian and surrealist storytellers, and their canvas has broadened from drunken dramas and heartbreak confessions to more curious, picaresque vignettes, but it would appear the departed Simone Felice has taken the devil’s best tunes with him to The Duke And The King.
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