Check out All The Saints. I was listening to Darker My Love the other night and did a little research: Darker My Love is currently on tour and one of the bands they’re touring with for some of the dates is a band called All the Saints. I figured that since I’m so into Darker My Love chances are I’ll be into the bands they tour with. Guess what? I was right!

Psychedelic yet direct, raging but tuneful, All the Saints‘ debut LP Fire On Corridor X bulldozes preconceptions at volume. Named after a section of the I-22 highway connecting the trio’s native Alabama to Mississippi, the cryptic title track is a hypnotic mind-meld of their primary influences, welding a Loop-sized space-groove to The Gun Club’s lyrical bite. “That song is about where we grew up,” explains singer and guitarist Matt Lambert. “I try to have a little bit of where we’re from in everything we do, without flying rebel flags and playing alt-country. The paradox of our band is that we’re from the South, but you’d never be able to guess.”

Lambert, bassist/co-vocalist Titus Brown and everybody’s soon-to-be fave new drummer Jim Crook moved to Atlanta in neighboring Georgia in 2004, attracted by the bohemian state capitol’s liberal atmosphere (“it’s the New York of the South”) and a fertile music scene that has spawned the likes of Deerhunter and Black Lips. All The Saints came into existence a year later, their moniker inspired partly by an old Verbena song and partly by an outsized fleur-de-lis saints symbol which a tramp had spray-painted gold and sold to the nascent combo at one of their early gigs. “It’s kind of a tongue-in-cheek fuck you,” laughs Lambert, he and Brown having been raised as strict Christians. “We’re in the very, very heart of the Bible Belt but there’s nothing ‘all the saints’ about our music!”

Read their full bio on Touch & Go Records, where you’ll also find tour dates and links to two tracks: Sheffield and Fire On Corridor X, the title track from their record. Don’t forget their MySpace, where you’ll find even more songs, pics of the band, tour dates, and videos of the band performing live.

If you’re in New York, All The Saints is playing at the Bowery Ballroom on 10.29.09 with A Place To Bury Strangers and Dead Confederate. Rock on!

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