Take a hefty bit of weird Americana music, communing with desert cacti and looking for UFO's under bright peyote skies, there's the Handsome Family who despite being in my radar for a time just hit big because of the obsessive compulsive nature of True Detective show-runner Nic Pizzolatto and my favourite white viejito T-Bone Burnette. Good to see more people grabbing wilfully at the intersecting branches of noir and weird-fiction, murder ballads and bat-shit alt-country.

Barkeep said, yeah, I've heard your name down the way and I kick motherfucking asses like you every day Mr. Stagger Lee. Well those were the last words that the barkeep said 'cause stag put four holes in his motherfucking head

Just A Perfect Day, Problems All Left Alone, Weekenders On Our Own. It's Such Fun. Just A Perfect Day, You Made Me Forget Myself. I Thought I Was Someone Else, Someone Good.

Boney's high on china white, Shorty found a punk. Don't you know there ain't no devil? There's just God when he's drunk. Well this stuff will probably kill you, let's do another line. What you say you meet me down on Heartattack and Vine.

I'd have been the shadow of your shadow if I thought it might have kept me by your side - J. Brel