Wednesday, November 15, 2023

The Damned - Bridge City Sinners

The Damned - Bridge City Sinners
2:47
Unholy Hymns, 2021
Written by ?

This outfit is neo-folk horrorbilly from Portland, OR.  Really, you only have to look at them to know that.  This song is pretty gloom and doom, like a Hieronymus Bosch painting turned into a poem: "The soil is dead and rotten / Plants don't grow here anymore / Can't feed the hungry babies / Water's creeping up the shore."  It would be a middling horrorbilly song, but for half the song, singer Libby Lux chnages her voice to an overwrought, ragged, histrionic screeching borders on the comic, except it's excruciating to listen to.  I don't see myself listening to this one a lot.

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