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Basement Bar at the Heartbreak Hotel
The six-piece Earls appear on the front dressed in moody finery: the lighting is low and red, there's more than one bit of Elvis memorabilia. The back shows a picture of Vegas in full neon glitter, and between all these design elements what the group itself lives by becomes perfectly clear. Recorded by Liam Watson at the legendary Toerag Studios in London, where it seems the entire trash/Vegas/rockabilly/lounge wing of the '80s and '90s, U.K. division, set up shop, Basement Bar wears its amusingly black heart on its sleeve. The Marquis de Suave (but of course) heads up the affair with his appropriately hiccuped, snarled, and crooned approach, while his compatriots amp up the echo and danknes...
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