On a day off this week, Niek descended into the depths of Bandcamp, where he found Sin City, and dragged me there too. Although the Welcome To Sin City album was already released in the first week of this year, both the backstory and the music are too good not to share with you now.
Match-fit touring musicians Nick Armstrong and Jack Beesley found themselves quarantined in a sleazy flat in Alicante (Spain) with a guitar, a piano and enough bottles of beer, gin, rum and red wine. They wrote and recorded about 126 demos based on their love for country, soul and rock ‘n’ roll records. Back home in Auckland (New Zealand), they got 25 songs on tape in 3 studio days, with a live band set up with enough session musicians (John Segovia, Alistair Deverick, Dave Khan, Delaney Davidson, Takumi Yanai, Liv Shaw, Liam Davis and Lucas Fritsch), instruments (guitars, bass, drums, banjo, pianos, percussion, lap steel, tambourine, fiddle, organ, mandolin, whistle, trumpet and saxophone) and fun to build a party. The 13 standout tracks ended up on this LP, on which the country, soul and rock ‘n’ roll influences melt together wonderfully. Sin City is a good find, isn’t it?
Welcome To Sin City is out digitally and on vinyl LP through 1:12 Records. Add to wantlist: Bandcamp
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