Danvers - Centre Of Town (mp3)
Y'all know Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire! right? Of course you do silly. Anyway, their affable co-leader and grower of ginger beards has long pedalled his far sparser and melancholic solo wares alongside his more celebrated output with the six-piece. While until now Danvers has consisted largely of a quietly released mini-LP 'Forest Witch' a few years ago and occasional personal appearances, the project has kept a fairly low profile. That might step up a notch now with the addition of the impeccably titled 'Ghost Knife', a backing band consisting of Fire! collaborator Sam Stearne and Rory O'Connor of Steering By Stars, ex-Aviator Lane and more recently Curses.
The solo + duo trio combo played their first show a week ago with Sincerely, Grizzly and while Rory and Sam never over-stated their presence (keeping their contributions to a pretty minimal drum and bass rhythm section for half the set and sitting down for the rest), they nevertheless added that little bit of grit and flesh that Dave's skeletal guitar work and softly sung compositions needed. Even if this is but a friendly side project to serve as an outlet for a quieter songwriting tangent performed to friends and well meaning fanboys like myself, its a pretty nice one.
They're playing early in the new year with Tasmania's Tiger Choir and locals Box Elder, a combination so dizzyingly swell by my watch that I may have no choice but skip Thee Oh Sees return show at Format, goshdarnit.
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