"Haunting folk noir melodies!"—PASTE MAGAZINE\n
\n Son
of the Velvet Rat is the alter ego of songwriter Georg Altziebler and his
wife Heike Binder\, who a decade ago left their hometown of Graz\, Austri
a and the cloistered safety of the Continent for the endless highway of Am
erica. They came to rest in Joshua Tree\, on the edge of California's Moja
ve Desert -- an alien\, alluring landscape that no less than Neil Armstron
g once christened the closest to that of the surface of the moon.
This spectral\, off-world character has finally found purchase in their ja gged folk-pop melodies and forbidding ballads\, infusing the cabaret tradi tions of Old World masters like Georges Brassens\, Jacques Brel and Fabriz io De André with the Old Testament prophecy and Kabbalistic visions of To wnes Van Zandt\, Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan.
\nOn their new album\, Ghost Ranch (Fluff &\; Gravy Records)\, drum loops and saloon piano\, violin and cicada drones\, hanging chimes and pounded metal combine to cre ate a jittery soundtrack for all the true believers and false messiahs\, c ounty fairs and shooting ranges\, feral banners fluttering atop battered p ickup trucks\, and the roadside carnage of an accidental police state ratc heting into focus. All delivered in what fan and collaborator Lucinda Will iams once called Georg’s “great sexy-gravelly voice\,” leavened by H eike’s translucent harmonies\, like desert roses circling a tattooed hea rt.
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