Whilst at first listen it may seem like Demon Blues is a rifferamic hard rockin’ boogie assault from start to finish, there’s nothing one-dimensional about the album at all – like an back-road rally there are wild careers off the beaten track into Hawkwind-ey space-psych (Another Planet), instrumental drag-race-guitar-duels (Hoonsville) and sludgey proto-metal-meets-T-Rex stomps (the title track), just to name a few. – READ THE REVIEW HERE
The group’s debut album Pacific Surf Line builds on the California folk-rock tradition, with a side of blues and some seasons of psychedelia. MORE ON THE RELIX SITE HERE
Demon Blues is throwback in the best possible way, the way you can go to some underground club in your nearest big city and see kick-ass rockers throwing it down like it was 1972. But unlike those amateurs, Datura4 is the real deal. In Mariani and Hitchcock, it has the pedigree. Demon Blues is an album that needs to be played loud, late at night, in the dark, and preferably live. – READ THE ENTIRE REVIEW HERE
Cranked punk-blues from Texan keyboard anarchist.
Anybody who hasn’t heard James Leg or his pre-solo caterwauling grooves with Black Diamond Heavies should a) feel downright ashamed and b) give this gloriously dishevelled long-player a blast.
Below The Belt cranks out filthy, overdriven punk-rock blues with Leg’s Fender Rhodes sounding like a thousand instruments at once. His throaty vox bring to mind Tom Waits and GG Allin trading shots with a pissed-up Jim Morrison. It’s like the man’s gargling nitroglycerine or something similarly lethal. – READ THE ENTIRE REVIEW HERE
Australians are a people who traditionally prefer their rock & roll hearty and full-bodied, and Datura4, a new combo featuring several veterans of the Aussie rock scene, certainly seem to bear this out. On their debut album, 2015’s Demon Blues, Datura4 reel off a broad range of stylistic influences that almost entirely reach back to hard and heavy sounds that enjoyed their heyday before 1974 — high-swagger boogie and blues-rock, psychedelic guitar exploration, simple first-generation hard rock, and just the slightest dash of garage rock sneer and fuzz for flavoring. READ THE ENTIRE REVIEW HERE
Photography by Bob Gruen
European tour dates :
07/10/2015 Essen, Freakshow DE
08/10/2015 Berlin, Wild at heart DE
09/10/2015 Nieder-Ohmen, BiFi’s DE
10/10/2015 Stuttgart, Goldmarks DE
11/10/2015 Bern, Reitschule/ Rössli CH
12/10/2015 Besancon, Bar de L’U FR
14/10/2015 Bilbao, Satelite ES
15/10/2015 Madrid, Wurlitzer Ballroom ES
16/10/2015 Baeza (Jaén), Cafe Teatro Central ES
17/10/2015 Estepona, King Creole ES
18/10/2015 Granada, Sala Prince ES
19/10/2015 Castellon, Veneno Stereo ES
21/10/2015 Conzano, UVA Blu IT
22/10/2015 La Spezia, Shake Club IT
23/10/2015 Torino, Blah Blah IT
24/10/2015 Milano, Ohibo Club IT
25/10/2015 Verona, Officina Agli Angeli IT
26/10/2015 Camino al Tagliamento, Ill Gnotul IT
27/10/2015 Vienna, Arenabeisl AU
28/10/2015 Pfarrkirchen, Club Xaver DE
29/10/2015 München, Backstage DE
30/10/2015 Fürth, Kopf und Kragen DE
31/10/2015 Dortmund, Subrosa DE