The Duke Spirit - 'Dark Is Light Enough' (Loog)
4/5
By: Kari Wynn
It always feels like an arduous task to take on a band who have become London's hip lil' darlings seemingly overnight. Couple that with production-work by Simon Raymonde - that's right kids, a former Cocteau Twin - on a band that live have the good old fashioned 1-2-sucker-punch approach, and it might be enough to make anyone cock their head in self-righteous indignation. Yes, perhaps it would if the band weren't The Duke Spirit.
'Dark Is Light Enough' is somehow gloriously sinister and sedately aggressive - guitars moodily racing along on the backstreets, occasionally taking on the drums head-to-head but never attempting to duke it out with the lazy, yet venomous I'll-kick-your-arse-into-your-brains vocals. Front-chick Leila Moss has clearly been studying her rock-n-roll predecessors, laying it down with every inch of the poise of PJ.
It's impossible to deny it - they're already in our heart.
Artists in this article: The Duke Spirit
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