Dead Confederate – The Rat
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Ahhh, now here’s something to take notice of. Dead Confederate hailing from Athens, Georgia throw up the flare that will get them noticed amongst all other sinking bands around them. Their “flare” comes in the form of “The Rat”.
This single is a confident, gloomy affair that wouldn’t look out of place in a Silent Hill game. It’s as dark as a song can get, and every “bang, bang” is sung with the coldest swagger. No doubt a track that will conjure up many feelings inside you, but the dominate feeling that will undoubtedly and ultimatley remain with you is that feeling of wanting more, and wanting to find out if the album is just as impressive and compelling as ‘The Rat’ is!
*On a side note the single has two versions: The clean version, and the explicit version. There are 2 strange things about this. The first being that both versions are radio edits; neither are the full album versions…weird! Even weirder than that is that the clean version sounds much better in terms of recording quality than the explicit version which makes me wonder, why bother putting it on?
Still!
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Dead Confederate’s debut album ‘Wrecking Ball’ was released earlier this month and the band can currently be seen around the UK supporting J Mascis (in most cases) in the following places;
DECEMBER
01 London Hoxton Bar & Kitchen
02 Oxford Jericho Tavern
03 Plymouth Hippo w/J Mascis
05 Leeds Cockpit w/Pulled Apart By Horses
05 Birmingham Academy 3
07 Manchester Moho Live w/ J Mascis
08 Nottingham Bodega Social
10 Leicester Uni w/ J Mascis
And heres a little sample of what you can expect should you go along to any of the above..
