Slow Bullet
Still Close Enough To Go Back
(Blood & Ink Records)
Wisconsin’s Sam DeBurgh and his songwriting moniker Slow Bullet might not be familiar to most, but I suspect that will change very shortly. Taking a raw singer-songwriter approach with plenty of post-hardcore influences intact, while some songs are bursts of fuzzed out rock not unlike Mansions, others are stripped to the bone in the vein of Owen. DeBurgh keeps the album minimal for the most part, sometimes with just his fragile voice and keys, while retaining a very DIY quality and a honest, introspective sincerity that was set out to ‘reflect our common condition as human beings’. Well, any human being with an interest between Mineral and Weezer will likely find this as essential as I did.
