Don’t be scared off by the battery drain in the first thirty seconds ofUndressed you lay’t before opening the debut album of Montreal band Truck Violence: behind this façade of brutality hides a palpable vulnerability that singer Karsyn Henderson expresses with authenticity. The quartet depicts in their songs the dark side of everyday life from their Alberta origins, made, in Henderson’s words, of solitude, despair, austerity and abuse, with titles such as Drunk to death And He ended the hanging bender — the accent of the singer of Norwegian origin and his raw portraits will recall the proletarian song of Sleaford Mods. However, if Truck Violence early displays its taste for hardcore (leaning towards metal during Readingon the progressive with The gash), he surprises by then revealing his folk connections: on Guns buried in the front yardHenderson sings only accompanied by Paul Lecours’ banjo, while the touching and acoustic I bore you now bear for me will evoke the melancholy of The Pogues.
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