28 July 2023

Band: THE DEAD REDS

Who: A six-piece band based in Lewes (East Sussex, UK), playing all original, dirty British blues, Americana, Psych and Rock n’ Roll. In the Summer of 2020, during lockdown, they released their fourth album Dictated Democracy (TUTV: great title).

New album: CIRCLE SERPENT

TDR: “We wrote these songs from the summer onwards, thriving off the additional songwriting input from Mark Wood since joining the band in April. We wanted to record the songs as live as possible, and thanks to the lovely space at Metway, we were able to make this a reality! We recorded all 8 of these songs in the live room over those 6 days. We couldn’t be happier with how they have turned out.”

TUTV: It all starts with a sort of voodo-trance warm-up with blood-curdling guitars, a floating flute, bits of glowing harmonica and a spellbinding vocal part by goosebumps singer Beth Lees on opener Brothers And Sisters. Afterward the heat is turned up on Son
Of America, Table 10, Last Train At Midnight and The Hunter with the fiery Americana voice
of Mark Woods. Psychobilly-like swamp blues at its hottest. Another sultry example is Last Train At Midnight.

In between, you can stomp your feet on Blood and Dirt spiced with sharp-edged guitar play, and take a breather on heartfelt tune Ships and the tremendously beautiful ballad Stand Up Tall, where Lees and Woods enchant with a most gripping duet and an acoustic guitar gently weeps.

It’s not like I’m a blues expert, but trust me you don’t have to be one at all to
hear and feel the emotive energy, the striking heart-and-soul vocality, the versatile
musical expertise and the vehement ardency of the flaming flare-ups, all at play here.

Dress cowboy smart and start a fiesta.

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