Location:
USA, CA

Category:
Blues / Hip-Hop

Try if you like:
Crgruve, The Blues Brothers

Swamphouse, over the course of a five-track EP, have managed to condense and distill the best bits of about forty years of a musical commuity into one brilliant sound. 'The Fade' blends old skool hip-hop with ultra-modern R&B (with added dashes of retro soul, funk and blues) to create a fresh vibe that's unlike anything else knocking about today.

 

It bites and holds your attention from the first notes of 'Break Down' - certainly a good way to start on a high. It's funky as anything and really makes you want to tap your foot and dance - the best bits of De La Soul and the Blues Brothers all at once. Tracks like 'Twisted' coin a more modern hip-hop style, but still have all the points of difference appeaing to all ages and backgrounds of music fans.

 

Devin's vocals are heartfelt and have a gorgeous timbre, and Pause's sense of rhythm is uncommon in artists nowadays, and that's without all the support from the back. The instrumental section of Swamphouse is constructed like a jam blues outfit - the talented strings come from John M F Stover on the guitar and Mike Navarette takes bass, the rhythm is provided by Blewfoot on drums and they have brass too -  Nick on the trombone and Forrest on the trumpet. It's all rounded off nicely with Tuna Butter, who takes the keys. It's very lovely stuff, the kind that will have you snapping our fingers and dancing down the road with your headphones in. And it'll be happily in your head for weeks.