Cure For Love

Description

On Des Demonas' new seven-track album, *Cure For Love*, the relentless drumming, throbbing bass, and guitars clashing with swirling Farfisa organs are not mere bystanders. The Washington-based band, led by Mark Cisneros (Kid Congo, The Make-Up), Paul Vivari, Joe Halladay, and Ryan Hicks, found a vocalist in Jacky Cougar Abok, whose reputation as an ultra-loud drummer preceding him might surprise for a frontman. Here he sings, or rather he speaks and shouts in an uncompromising slam-rap style. The band crafts a completely unique style at the intersection of post-punk and funk with touches of bubblegum, Afrobeat, and psychedelic rock, which has earned them opening slots for bands like Bush Tetras and Hot Snakes. Tracks like "Ballad Of Ike & Tina" and "Black Orpheus Blues" blur the lines, leaving the listener both confronted and drawn to something beyond their comprehension! An album to recommend to fans of The Fall, for example. Once you enter their universe, it's hard not to succumb.