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Fronted by Tim Keegan, a long time Robyn Hitchcock collaborator, and produced by Kid Loco, Departure Lounge’s sophomore album, Too Late To Die Young is an ethereal, if un-focussed, meditation on joy. On King Kong Frown, Departure Lounge riff on Nashville blues rock, with a dirty organ, shakers, cowbells and Keegan’s menacing voice, sweet too, but full of dangerous portents.

You told me one day
The wind will change
And if I don’t watch out
My face is gonna stay this way
Well darlin’ I won’t let you down
I was only joking, just messin’ around
With the king Kong frown

Rushing horns, big guitars, up builds the tension. Slick, sly harmonies, now horns squealing, and King Kong Frown writhes out in a giant peal.

Sounds like the love child of: The Rolling Stones and Richard Aschroft.

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