Comments on: The Builders & the Butchers – Salvation is a Deep Dark Well

By: Drunk Country

Drunk Country — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:36:16 +0000

wobbly?

By: Rampant Chutney Consumerism

Rampant Chutney Consumerism — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:58:01 +0000

the voice is a little like John Lydon don’t you all think?

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:20:58 +0000

Ah, Chutters. You never fucking change.

By: RCC (on the iPhone baby)

RCC (on the iPhone baby) — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:45:30 +0000

I’ve just bought this off iTunes for £4.49! And no I don’t need no bloody artwork…..can’t wait to listen to it and disagree with all of yous

By: Campfires & Battlefields

Campfires & Battlefields — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:39:12 +0000

That should be “Now that’s a romper stomper.”

By: Campfires & Battlefields

Campfires & Battlefields — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:37:55 +0000

Not quite sure why they didn't put When It Rains on this record. Not that's a romper stomper. I know it'd been floating around the web for a while, and maybe they just felt it was too far removed from their newer material? Anyway, shame. I fully expect that tune to leave me breathless live.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:21:37 +0000

Well I don’t disagree in most senses. Had I never heard the first album my reaction to this would presumably be very different.

There’s still nothing to shake your bones quite like Spanish Death Song played so loud your teeth rattle though.

By: Euan

Euan — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:10:14 +0000

I’m with tart all the way.

By: Tart

Tart — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:50:27 +0000

Er, make that most follow up records, god knows there’s plenty bad records out there! Haha

By: Tart

Tart — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:48:30 +0000

Two points: I will never be as good a reviewer as you, Matthew, because it is exactly as you say, the mandolin and banjo as percussion instrument that sets this band apart from any folk band I’ve heard bar O’death. That, you hit on the head.

And, here’s my opinion on comparing two records: aside from glaringly obvious decisions to not give a fuck, most records are good – and it depends on where we are, not on where they are as to how we rate them. Will I ever experience my first listen of “Born to Run” again? No, surely not. But that doesn’t mean that everything the Boss did after that was crap. It’s just that it was a time and place that can’t be repeated, no use in comparing anything to it.

I only casually listened to the first B&B album. I studied this one and found it to be wonderful and gorgeous, as is. Dark and funeral and gothic, it’s everything I expected and more from my scant knowledge of them. So I’m left quite happy with this record but, of course, I’ll allow you your disappointment if you wish xoxox