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KNIFE IN THE WATER
It's like watching a film or looking out through the window of a moving car, always taking you to places you would never expect to find yourself.Their cinematic music is perhaps more spiritually aligned with Lynch, Kubrick or Godard than most rock bands. The songs have a natural feel for the crooning malevolent beauty found in Roy Orbison, Del Shannon or Rick Nelson's best material. They play it calmly, using space and tension, exploding at key points leaving the filament still burning. Knife in the Water has called their sound "Western drug music". It's strangely fitting, as the words and sounds suggest Psychedelicized drives through west Texas and sleepless trips to Matamoros pharmacies, the mystery deepening as the images flicker by.
The members of Knife in the Water's diverse background informs their sound: Singer/keyboardist Laura Krause played with a Gamelan orchestra in Indonesia, and Bill McCullough studied with Jimmy Day, the favorite pedal steel player of Patsy Cline and George Jones. Songwriter and singer Aaron Blount was inspired to create by the Birthday Party and Sonic Youth as well as the artists of Sun and Stax records.
"A skeletal ochestra of pedal-steel, warm Hammond and strychnine twang-guitar, Knife In The Water come on like a dark-hearted Lambchop, or the Pernice Brothers scoring a Hitchcok flick, all smouldering menace lurking at the edges of surface-pretty music. The key seems to be that these songs are as much haunted as haunting..." (NME)
"...sees them weaving more dark tales to a score of musical spaciousness wherein organ and pedal steel are used sparingly to help the spookiness factor along. Once again, the lyrics are more about imagery than grasping a firm meaning, though it doesn´t take long to realise songwriter Aaron Blount´s continuing interest in death and hopelessnes." (Uncut)
