Each strike luckier than the last
Southend's Folk sensations, The Lucky Strikes, give us the sad story of Southend Pier that tragically burnt down in October 2005. This is how Folk can come forth triumphantly from a wood-smelling shack in the musical wilderness into the big music cities and gate-crash popular music. Beast Burnt Down can quite successfully do this whilst not diluting the folk sound and/or principles of the band or their sound.
There is a foot-tapping mid-tempo that could be Indie-Rock with a hint of folk. The song has a catchy element building up to the chorus which splashes symbols with the fiddle and banjo duel. This is a taste of what is to come from the band's fourth album which is a collection of songs about gangsters, carnival queens and ghosts of Essex folklore. The band, as always, play out like your Grandfather spinning his tales of half-truths to beautiful organic music. Great stuff.