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At first listen, Cave Singers doesn’t sound like a band that came out of the ashes of Pretty Girls Make Graves, Hint Hint or Cobra High. But considering that it features Derek Fudesco, who made a name for himself in the whiskey-swigging garage-rock band Murder City Devils before doing time in PGMG, the sound makes perfect sense. There’s still plenty of down-and-out wordplay here, and lead singer Pete Quirk’s voice resembles that of a chain-smoking, nasally Bruce Springsteen. It’s all a bit slower than you might expect from a group with such a pedigree, but the rustic nature of the act as a whole has more in common with Murder City Devils than is initially apparent. The recently released No Witch marks the band’s move from Matador to its new home at Jagjaguwar, a perfect fit for this dark and booze-soaked folk music.
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