Sin City: Another Round (digital outlets)

 |   |  <1 min read

I'm Your Man
Sin City: Another Round (digital outlets)

Sometimes the cover or album title tells you exactly what you need to know.

And so it is with ramshackle rockers Sin City whose Delaney Davidson-produced debut Welcome to Sin City of two years ago we described as offering “loose-limbed swagger, braggadocio, ramshackle country rock'n'roll, barroom ballads and country cliches mined for knowing humour”.

This follow-up – we might say “sequel” given it mines the same seam of country-influenced barroom rock'n'roll – was recorded in Australia with local players where the founders Nick Armstrong and Jack Beesley now live.

They conjure up the mood of the album title and cover art in songs which invigorate familiar country, rock'n'roll and pub rock, and come with titles like Gin and Tonic, Big City Streets, Mama Please Let Me In and Same Sad Song.

Again they look back to Spanish Stroll/girl group balladry of Willie DeVille (Sidewalk Sale, She's Got No Heart) to drop the mood towards melancholy and they wind up the desperation on I'm Your Man.

Nothing Sin City do will change your world or make you rethink your musical values. But as they play out these 12 songs you'll enjoy their familiarity and the band's commitment to ensuring a good time.

Allow us to repeat ourselves from that previous review.

“Doubtless raucously memorable live.”

.

You can hear and buy this album at bandcamp here


Share It

Your Comments

post a comment

More from this section   Music at Elsewhere articles index

Angel Olsen: Burn Your Fire For No Witness (Jagjaguwar)

Angel Olsen: Burn Your Fire For No Witness (Jagjaguwar)

Perhaps like most Elsewhere readers, I'd never heard of this quite remarkable woman previously, but a bit of research shows she was born in Missouri, is now based in Chicago and had a previous... > Read more

Cybiont: A Trilogy of Random Thoughts and Considerations (Cybiont)

Cybiont: A Trilogy of Random Thoughts and Considerations (Cybiont)

First let it be noted that this album by a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Northland is not an easy proposition, and nor does it give up its manic diversity that easily. The title... > Read more

Elsewhere at Elsewhere

Chilli lime Thai fish with coriander, by James

Chilli lime Thai fish with coriander, by James

James is my Thai friend and a wonderful chef (see his Authetically Thai Chicken recipe), and this is a rare treat. It helps in the presentation to have one of those fish-shaped trays with... > Read more

The Jam: All Mod Cons

The Jam: All Mod Cons

If Liam Gallagher yearns for Oasis again and brother Noel still wants Paul Weller's career, then we need only go back to this '78 album by the Jam to hear Weller aspiring to be the post-punk Ray... > Read more