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The Duke Spirit have spent the past 8 months whipping their new tunes into fighting shape. The seven-year-old U.K. outfit (Liela Moss, Toby Butler, Olly Betts) decided to write their third album as a quartet after guitarist Dan Higgins exited, asking new bassist Marc Sallis to join the squad more recently. The result: supreme focus and a scaled-down sound that cuts to the heart of The Duke Spirit more precisely than ever. After two albums of opaque lyrics and increasingly dense sounds, with Bruiser, The Duke Spirit are breaking down the barriers between their epically melodic blues rock and the rest of us. And the outcome is spectacular.

ARTIST: The Duke Spirit
TITLE: Bruiser
LABEL: Polydor
RELEASE DATE: September 27, 2011
TIME: 47:24 min.
WEB: http://thedukespirit.com/

01. Cherry Tree [03:33]
02. Procession [03:12]
03. Villain [04:45]
04. Don’t Wait [04:01]
05. Surrender [03:18]
06. Bodies [04:35]
07. De Lux [04:36]
08. Sweet Bitter Sweet [04:25]
09. Running Fire [03:20]
10. Everybody’s Under Your Spell [03:23]
11. Northbound [04:41]
12. Homecoming [04:35]

The Duke Spirit – Cherry Tree

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