There are good days and there are bad days. Here are three of the bad ones. First up, Royal City remind us that we are at the mercy of a terrible, laughing god. Next, The DeZurik Sisters break our hearts in a trice. Fortunately, The Handsome Family is on hand to let us know that gnashing termites, crawling lizards and wild boars are on their way to claim it all back for their own. Peace at last. Comforting, eh?
Sonically, these songs share a sense of the profoundly unhinged. A lurching reel, some deranged yodelling, a Prozac-laden report of Armageddon – all is surely, compulsively, giddyingly unwell.