There’s some great soulful, jazz mad…thing going down in the the southwest of England. There always has been, thinking of The Pop Group, Massive Attack, PJ Harvey…and now to that list, add The Heavy.
The Heavy come from Noid, a tiny hamlet situated to the south west of Bath. They are vocalist Swaby, guitarist Dan ‘T’ Taylor, bassist Spencer “Big Daddy Spence” Page and drummer Chris Ellul. Their debut album Great Vengeance and Furious Fire was released in 2007, and their sophomore release The House That Dirt Built will be released in September in the UK and October in the US. They switch, seemingly effortlessly from Sonics-inspired mayhem (‘Oh No! Not You Again!!) to Curtis Mayfield-style songs like ‘How Do You Like Me Now?’
This is their new track, ‘Sixteen.’
The Heavy -‘Sixteen.’
Like this? Thought you might…
For sheer contrast, two of their previous singles
The Heavy -‘Oh No! Not You Again!!’
The Heavy -‘Set Me Free.’