Browse by Artist: CROOK WITH THE RENDERERS, MARYROSE

Artist:	CROOK WITH THE RENDERERS, MARYROSE
Title:	Ghosts of Our Vegas Lives
Label:	3 BEADS OF SWEAT
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	3BOS 1009CD

"Renderers singer/guitarist Maryrose Crook's first solo album and the first new recordings by New Zealand's primordial alt-country band the Renderers in nearly a decade. The wait has definitely been worth it, as Ghosts of Our Vegas Lives represents a significant leap in the career of the Renderers as they approach nearly two decades of existence. The album features ten dreamlike dark, soulful songs that burst with life (as well as its opposing force). Recorded with the then Renderers lineup of Maryrose on vocals and rhythm guitar, husband Brian Crook on lead guitar and keyboard, bassist Thom Bell (also in David Kilgour's backing band the Heavy Eights), and famed NZ drum basher Robbie Yeats (Dead C), Ghosts of Our Vegas Lives oozes through the speakers with the arid barrenness of a Clint Eastwood desperado Western and the subterranean muculence of a David Lynch rabbit-hole headtrip, giving life to the dead-end tales of an unnamed couple tethered to each other in a forlorn doom scenario. The Renderers' singular approach -- half thoroughly tweaked garage/country/psych propulsiveness and half restrained noir-beauty -- fleshes out each of the album's songs with the perfect dose of restraint and release, and the band has never sounded better on record. One could easily envision these songs being performed in a sordid West Texas nightclub just as easily as a smoky San Francisco ballroom or a grimy Dunedin pub. Along the way, the band manages to evoke everything from the Dirty Three to Palace to the Stooges to the Handsome Family to the Dead C...clean, dirty and in between, you might say."

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