A great live performance in Lawrence, KS at the Bottleneck!!
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Artist Bio:
Though they've had eight years to refine their sound and vision, Murder
By Death rolled out of the gates fully realized in 2000, playing a
blend of rocking Americana noir and dramatic post-punk that erased old
style and audience boundaries as much as it tested the limits of new
ones. And with their fourth album and Vagrant debut, Red Of Tooth And
Claw (3/4/08), the Bloomington, Indiana, quartet are emerging as true
artists in the zero-boundary sense: cinematic storytellers whose albums
come together in an essential whole, and players whose jaw-dropping
performances on record make you yearn for the chance to experience
their energy up close and in person.
As much as the band’s previous full-lengths—2002's Like The Exorcist,
But More Breakdancing; 2003’s Who Will Survive, And What Will Be Left
Of Them?; and 2006’s In Bocca Al Lupo—document this evolution, Red Of
Tooth And Claw finds Murder By Death at the height of their powers.
Recorded with Grammy-winning producer Trina Shoemaker (Queens Of The
Stone Age, Emmylou Harris, Iggy Pop) at Dark Horse studios in
Tennessee, the album captures the drama and nuance of MBD’s sound
without compromising a lick of the band’s energy. And as longtime
followers of their narrative grit—equal parts Old West drama and Old
Testament justice—will be glad to know, MBD’s subject matter also
hasn’t softened for album No. 4. Rife with lust, betrayal, and
classical archetypes of good and evil, Red Of Tooth And Claw is, as
singer/guitarist Adam Turla puts it, a "Homer’s Odyssey of revenge,
only without the honorable character at the center."
That notion of an epic quest rings apparent from the first notes of Red
Of Tooth And Claw. Equally indebted to Eric Burdon and Johnny Cash
(Turla's vocals have never sounded so ominously haunted and low), "I'm
Comin' Home” sets the album’s tone with a shuffle and a snarl. Bassist
Matt Armstrong and new drummer Dagan Thogerson drive the songs with
equal parts understatement and brute force, and cellist Sarah Balliet,
whose vocabulary spans from Kentucky bluegrass to Western classical,
guides and slashes through the songs with colors both in and outside
the lines of traditional Americana.
http://www.murderbydeath.com/bio.php
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