ARTiST: The Heavy
TiTLE: Great Vengeance & Furious Fire
LABEL: Counter Records
GENRE: Rock
TiME: 33:38 min
SiZE: 39,2 MB
BiTRATE: VBRkbps
RiP DATE: Aug-31-2007
RELEASE DATE: Oct-22-2007
WEBSiTE: n/a
Track List:
01. That Kind Of Man 03:39
02. Colleen 03:09
03. Set Me Free 03:40
04. You Don't Know 03:16
05. Girl 02:47
06. Doing Fine 04:28
07. In The Morning 03:04
08. Bruk Pocket Lament 02:50
09. Dignity 02:36
10. Who Needs The Sunshine 04:09
Release Notes:
Prepare to burn. Sorry. Don't wanna put you off or
nuffink. But prepare to burn.
The Heavy make the kind of dirty, guitar-scorched
hip hop soul which leads you into temptation. And
then you're going to burn. The dark side of four
boys from the arse-end of Bath, the beast of Bodmin
Moor, half man/half wolf, The Heavy specialise in
making everything wrong sound right. So successful
are they, so good does it feel, so natural, that
voodoo filth will be pouring through you before you
know what's going on.
From the moment you hear first single, "That Kind of
Man," you know only exorcism can save you. Combining
the gritty bottom end of classic Wu Tang with
wall-of-sound guitar wailing and raw blues-soul,
it's instantly recognisable and utterly addictive,
Swaby's sweet-yet-threatening vocal raising it to
another level. "Coleen" is a more stripped-down hip
hop groove, with backing singers giving the tune a
Stax-on-acid feel. "Set Me Free" throws acoustic
guitar in to the mix for a more laid-back (though
still rhythmically driving) number. "You Don't Know"
shows heavier rock influences, a building pile-up of
riffage. "Girl" gives Swaby a chance to show off his
(slightly tongue in cheek) rapping style, over a
rhythm which can only be described as
Kinks-meets-Marly Marl. "Doing Fine" is the
emotional centrepiece of the album, a downhome blues
straight outta the West Country. "In The Morning" is
frugging and flithy. "Bruk Pocket Lament" sounds
like classic blues brought bang up to date and
reeling from too much meths. And the raging
"Dignity" ain't going to stand no fucking with it,
seen? The album finishes with "Who Needs The
Sunshine," which carries echoes of the Bristol scene
of Massive Attack and Tricky, but reconstituted as
an epic country blues.
The core of The Heavy are Swaby and Taylor, who have
known each other for a decade. Swaby's parents were
one of the first West Indian families to move to
Bath. One of eleven siblings, he grew up surrounded
by reggae, Prince and Two Tone as well as the hip
hop he embraced so fervently. When he met Taylor
they bonded over vintage rhythm and blues and the
movies of Jim Jarmusch.
Despite starting with an Atari and a four track, the
pair soon recruited Dingley (drums) and Page (bass)
and began gigging as a four piece. Perhaps their
unique sound is in part the result of coming from a
town they describe as "the graveyard of all
ambition". Or some West Coutry leyline shiznit.
Either that or they're just sex-crazed lunatics. At
the end of the day, who cares as long as it sounds
this good?
Enjoy!