Former Plank drummer Johnny Winbolt-Lewis formed Douga to sing the songs
he wrote and after some changes in line up he's settled into a duo with
John Waddington for "The Silent Well." Raul Carreno plays additional
guitar on three songs and the tall man of many bands Dan Bridgewood-Hill
(dbh) plays violin on all but the first two songs but didn't play at
the album launch gig where they utilised two guitars, bass and drums.
"Kids of Tomorrow" opens hopefully, a hard edged dream pop number.
"Still Waters" rocks harder and has an intriguing chorus: "I'm not a yes
man but I'm lying in the middle of the road, stopping traffic on a
habit of mine, I'm not comatose." Then somehow Johnny makes a distorted
guitar chime. "Albatross" has a Nick Drake wistfulness, and sad sunset
violin strains whilst sampled voices chatter unintelligably. Dan's
violin sounds more hoedown on "Accidents" which trots along a gurgling
tunnel of psychedelic guitar swirl trapping distant rabbit receivers.
"Beat Konductor" and "Blue is Nothing" reflect on depressive tendencies.
"Chains" lays it on the line to corporate whores; "When will this be
history? An end to all the travesty." Then a jumpy Afrobeat inspired
rhythm gets sliced by some clanging guitar strikes. They only made 99
copies of this, so you'd better snap one up quick.
This review was written for Que Vida 2
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