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November 26, 2012
The Heavy emerged from the hipster-blues thing first established by The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and The Black Keys. But since the act hail from England, they're far more comfortable with mixing indie's need for authenticity and pop's embrace of a good hook at any cost. In this respect, The Glorious Dead walks the same walk as its predecessors. It contains fuzzy stomp ("Same Ol'"), hip-gyrating boogie ("What Makes a Good Man?"), garage punk ("Just My Luck") and symphonic soul nostalgia a la Paul Weller ("Curse Me Good"). The Heavy enjoy covering a lot of ground.
South Park Sessions: The Heavy "What Makes A Good Man"
U.K. garage-soul band The Heavy's 2012 album The Glorious Dead is a Rhapsody office favorite; we were thus thrilled to welcome them to town for a South Park Session, wherein artists we think you'll dig too offer up exclusive, intimate acoustic performances from live near the titular park near our San Francisco office. Here they are doing their smoldering hit "What Makes a Good Man." Quote: "An acoustic guitar's like rowing a boat -- it's exhausting." But they seem to get on just fine. Enjoy.
