Heavy Love
While Duke Garwood isn\'t a blues singer, he sings the blues. His fifth solo album, *Heavy Love*, is a dark journey through the endless night, self-produced in London and Los Angeles with collaborators Mark Lanegan and Queens of the Stone Age’s Alain Johannes mixing the results. The often sparse, eerie tracks—“Disco Lights,” “Sweet Wine”—create unsettling feelings that would seem natural accompanying a David Lynch film. A harmonica chokes out its notes on “Snake Man,” a track that had been slowly progressing with a drum loop, a warm bass element, and Garwood’s haunted baritone. *Heavy Love* is brilliant work, start to finish.
As a whole, the songs on Heavy Love seem to emerge from the soul's longest, loneliest night to meet the raw, bleary edges of a new dawn that makes no promises.
After working solo and collaboratively for most his career, here Duke Garwood serves notice of a vision coming into ever sharper focus.
Review of 'Heavy Love' By Duke Garwood, the album comes out on February 8th via Heavenly Recordings. The first single is "Heavy Love."
Ranging from pure-pop melodies to the foreboding Hawaiian Death Song, bluesman Duke Garwood is an intrepid explorer