Album Reviews

With “Red Of Tooth And Claw” Indiana’s Murder By Death released an album that is nothing but impressive. It’s as if these guys were in jail alongside Johnny Cash or write their songs at the desk next to Nick Cave. Whatever the case may be, Murder By Death (kudos on the band name by the way!) completely absorbed those songwriters’ work and simply started pouring out songs of their own one day. Songs that are pitch black. Songs that tell of grime, murder, obsession and sex. Vocalist Adam Turla doesn’t romanticize anything. He just lays it all out there for the taking while the rest of the band cranks out a solid foundation of country, Americana and rootsrock. And hell, any band that writes an instrumental theme for Ennio Morricone that makes you swear you already heard it while watching Clint Eastwood ride into town is okay in my book!