Product Description

The Duke Spirit follow up 2005's 'Cuts Across The Land' with 'Neptune', their second album and first on new label You Are Here. Having spent lots of 2007 finding new horizons in America they return and, with the help of producer Chris Goss(Queens Of The Stone Age, Soulwax), release a record full of growth and variety. Liela Moss's brooding, soulful voice delivers poetic lyrics that echo alongside screeching guitars, while softer moments are a treat. Singles include 'The Step And The Walk'.

Track Listing

1. I Do Believe
2. Send A Little Love Token
3. Step And The Walk
4. Dog Roses
5. Into The Fold
6. This Ship Was Built To Last
7. Wooden Heart
8. You Really Wake Up The Love In Me
9. My Sunken Treasure
10. Lassoo
11. Neptune's Call
12. Sovereign
13. Sovereign

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6343 in Music
• Released on: 2008-02-04
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

WOW
I first heard the voice of Liela Moss on "Mayday" by uk based "Unkle" feat. The Duke Spirit. After playing that song plenty of times i thought i would buy the album even though i hadn't heard any of The Duke Spirit's own work, but im glad i did. "Neptune" shows off the power and individuality of Moss' voice. Every song is great espescially "Into the Fold", "Lassoo" and "Neptune's Call". After buying this album and listening to it countless of times i bought thier first album and an Ep of theirs so i could get a larger collection of work produced by one of the most original modern British bands.

Solid if unspectacular
The Duke Spirit are a great live band, cool and charismatic. The thrill of white noise excitement doesn't quite come across on the record. Still its getting better and closer after the first album. I wish they were more productive and didn't take 4 years between albums! It feels like a little less marketing and a bit more recording would do them good. Good luck to them, I like where they are coming from.

What more do they have to do?
This hasn't received much attention from UK critics - just the odd grudging 3-star review. The suspicion is that the band are being pre-judged on account of the received wisdom about underperforming debut Cuts Across the Land. On the evidence of this new release they must be wondering just how good they have to be to be to get a proper hearing, because Neptune is a blinding album.

The dense, powerful sound is still there, driven by thumping drums and buzzing guitar. Their energy was never in doubt, but now it's harnessed to songs crammed full of killer hooks. Singer Liela Moss delivers them in a compelling voice that ranges from cut-glass precision to rock-chick slur. Her accent has a suggestion of posh English, with hints of Cockney and a dash of West Country: 'on' is 'awn' and 'life' becomes 'loyfe'.

The lyrics are full of the sea, but the music suggests that it dried up a million years ago. This is desert rock, hot, bright and dry like the arid piano and abrasive, dehydrated harmonica that stalk the sparse and magnificent Dog Roses. Much of the album has a parched intensity that's difficult to resist.