Saint Agnes @Jubilee Club, London
Alejandro De Luna
The garage and psychedelic London based duo, Saint Agnes, formed last year, is not just another irrelevant band from the infinite and hyped music scene of Britain. As if they were brought from the dirtiest strainers of the British capital to bring homage to America´s most feculent sound, they are a worthy rock ‘n’ roll revival with a good image and a colossal sound.
“Ennio Morricone´s rock n´roll” is how they described themselves and they might not be wrong. If you think of spaghetti western soundtracks overlapped with an American´s western, cowboy-desert sound but spliced with a British accent and mixed with the obsession of American heavy drugged, psychedelic passages. On top of that, add crude and distorted guitars; hypnotic bass lines; primitive, but authoritative drums; and garage funeral-like keyboards and you should get an approximate of how Saint Agnes sounds.
Beyond The Good Fight, his acclaimed self-produced EP released in April 2013; yesterday, at the Jubilee Club in Camden, they proved that, live, they have a much better and more violent sound.
Saint Agnes gave a short but powerful set accompanied by drums and bass; the vocals, raw guitar lines and solos of Jon Tufnell mixed with the talent of sexy Kitty Austen´s vocals, guitar and keyboards with organ lines reminiscent of The Doors and 60s garage. Songs like “The Tower Falls”, the Tarantino-like “The Good Fight”, the surfy “Drown Me In A River”, a druggy and schizophrenic version of The Doors in “Roundhouse Blues” and the anthem-to-be “Old Bonne Rattle” proves that bands like The Kills, The Black Lips, Dirty Beaches or Black Rebel Motorcycle Club will have a new ally rescuing the dirtiest sounds in rock n´roll.
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Saint Agnes deserves more attention and they own us a full length debut album.
