Bulls - Dancing On Sinking Sands (VINYL LP)

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Bulls
Dancing On Sinking Sands
VINYL LP

Brand new

180g Vinyl hand numbered out of 250

Bull At The Gate Productions - BATG001

Includes Digital Download

Linda J and Bean Johnston were once upon a time one half of punk legends Little Ugly Girls, the most famous Tasmanian band never to release a record.

Dissolving LUGs somewhere around the turn of the century, they reinvented themselves as Melbourne rock darlings The Dacios, releasing their album Monkey's Blood in 2009. Linda J and Bean Johnston's creative partnership spans literally a lifetime; it has to -- they're brother and sister, and this new album is in fact dedicated to their parents.

Dancing on Sinking Sands sees the duo leave behind the feedback
stained rock dynamic, of which they're masters, and lay their hearts open with ten new torch songs - a series of allegories of romantic love, abandoned love, mad love and a love of life. Reminiscent of Patti Smith's later work, Thalia Zadek, or even Nick Cave's Boatman's Call, Dancing on Sinking Sands sees the Johnston kids dip their hands into the well marked 'Country' and lets tradition glaze the songs with a classic shade of melancholy over the album's two halves - 'Dancing' and 'On Sinking Sands'.

It's a narrative folding backwards on itself evenly as it unwinds, telling both stories of found love and faded love at the same time.

As Linda tells us, "the idea with the album title is that the joy and sorrow of love sit together without begrudging the imperative of their dual existence, and in a broader sense, it's the idea that through adversity we fight the good fight".

Casting herself as the Queen of Heartbreak, Linda plays her characters like a white Etta James. She's Gena Rowlands fronting the Burrito Brothers. Dannie 'Bean' Johnston's guitar snakes a spine through these songs with an economy, maturity and a deftness of touch only a lifetime of playing can provide â€“ illustrating Linda's fables of desolate love with country inflections one minute and the next providing a steady canvas on which his little sister can join the dots between the stars that appear at dawn.

The album features a superb array of guest musicians, whose
formidable talents are exploited to compliment the sparse acoustic arrangements that Bulls are known for as a live band.

Track Listing:
1. Finger 04:51
2. Our Love 05:23
3. Rolling Thunder 03:10
4. Dance 07:08
5. Pistol 04:25
6. Dirty Sheets 03:29
7. Girl So Mean 04:23
8. Lucille 03:16
9. Ghosts In A Bullring 05:45

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