Garden of ashes

"Duke Garwood's last album, 2015's trippy Heavy Love, saw him break out of the shadows and into limited acclaim: a British Mark Lanegan soundalike whose own gravelly tone and gravitas were actually equal to Lanegan's. Garden of Ashes is less heavy on the guitars, but still simmers eloquently with the heat haze of Garwood's opiated take on the blues - the blues of the California desert".

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"What is most striking about the album, however, is not its romantic gloom, but its pace: sleaze slowed down to a slumbersome drawl. While everything sounds lovely and moody - understated desert blues for a night in without the smartphone - beware the risk that it might send you to literal sleep, too".

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