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Songs for the New Depression by Ben Ratliff
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fave it Roots Rock | Electric Blues
11 tracks | 40 minutes
Released Jun 2004
on Mother's Discontent Music
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:44 All Night lyrics FREE 03:44 All Night lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:44 All Night
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Lo-fi gutbucket roots music mixed with electronica using found keyboards, megaphones, guitar and loops.
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CD: "Songs for the New Depression"
Ben Ratliff flexes his experimental muscles on this growling, inventive new solo effort. "All Night," the first track, sounds like Howlin' Wolf with a beat box, and if that debt weren't clear enough, "Let It Out" features what sounds like an actual wolf cry. To some degree the whole album feels like a resourceful bastard child of the Wolf and Link Wray, even in the songs that rely on analog synth sounds or hip-hop beats, such as "Leviathan" and the abstract instrumental "Good Morning."
There's a good deal more to this music than its solid blues foundation. Highly musical synth work, fuzzed-out guitars and sinister vocal effects evoke a whole gamut of experimental rock, from Chrome and the Residents to Beck and Laurie Anderson. But Ratliff's most original contribution is his fusion of grinding industrial beats with deeply felt, smoky blues guitar.
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