The October Country invites you on a psychodub rock roadtrip which breeds dark cabaret with parched atmospherics. This is the work of Swansea-based musician, Dave Merrick, a solo project conceived and implemented in 2001 after several years in live, gig-orientated local bands. Likened to Bowie meets the Doors ('Gigbite', June 2002), The October Country communicates a tension between the hunger for an experimental vocabulary of chaos and the antagonistic lure of the 'humble' song. With its competing elements of aggression and decadence, this is a vision which interfuses Dave's diverse passions into a cohesive, but fluid, whole.
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