The Duke Spirit were the first band I ever interviewed in April 2005, just as they were about to take the stage with Brighton's own British Sea Power and I'd heard one song and managed to get through the interview, despite having a pint of coke (accidentally) poured all over me, but since then I've been in love, I've seen them a million times and promoted them a couple... The Kusama EP, leads with single proper Everybody's under your spell (and I'd assume a track from the fortcoming third album) The Duke Spirit formula is kinda simple, soaring feedback enhanced guitars almost battling each other, pounding rhythm section and Liela Moss' soulful howl, if it ain't broke dont fix it... The Duke Spirit merely tweak it, adding in an extra couple of hooks here and there, complicating the percussion, hitting you harder, faster or with more heated emotion, the lead track goes ticks all their boxes, each verse/chorus pounds through with even more alomb, learning from the difficulties of the buzz on cuts across the land, but survived from the desert hiatus of the neptune. Additional tracks "Victory" and "Northbound" also fratinize along the same way, the former a off-kilter sixties group produced by Josh Homme, the latter is more soulful and soothing. As usual, The Duke Spirit build you up into a frenzy, only to save your heart afterwards. 9/10
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