The Drones: Havilah | CD review

(ATP)On their fifth album, these unsung Australian art-blues champs hit a terrific peak, where their typically scorching flurry of strangled chords and squalling solos was matched by an unimpeachably great set of songs. Frontman Gareth Liddiard drawls and howls his way through his allegorical tales of Minotaurs, cargo cults and slow-creep apocalypse, often sounding like one of the few rock lyricists worth paying real attention to; he's a vocalist like no other, to boot, his melodic ear never bet...

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