The Builders And The Butchers - The Builders And The Butchers

The Builders and the Butchers captures the loose feeling of a bunch of guys getting together on a porch to drink, carouse and otherwise have a good time while playing shambling and rootsy acoustic indie rock. However, as fun as that sounds, these songs are dark and forboding, with lyrics full of broken hearts, death and dying. Like the Boggs, the percussion propels the songs forward, this time onward towards destruction. "Bottom At The Lake" describes a theif's "new home among the fish and grass and stones". Other songs, such as "Find Me In The Air" are peppered with call and response, playing with overlap of gothic and gospel. "The Coal Mine Fall" and "Black Dresses" are also worth checking out.