False Idols by Hugo Race & The True Spirit

"Carrying on the phenomenal depth and intensity of ‘The Spirit’, ‘False Idols’ sees the former Bad Seed at the top of his game and in an altogether more deep and gritty mood. ‘False idols’ is a wild ride. These five songs were held back from ‘the Spirit’ because they seem to tell a strange and particular story of their own from the dark side of the Spirit, judging by Michelangelo Russo's cover painting of man become beast."
- Rotation 11

"Hugo Race is one of those walk it, don’t talk it kinda guys. He just can’t sit still. If he’s not charging about Italy or Africa (my god, the man’s written a book about it) making cds with musicians, he’s doing it somewhere else.
"False Idols" has five songs; the title track is first and lopes out of the blocks in a sort of intimate funk, Hugo’s hot wet razor vocals as instantly vivid and unique as Cohen or Waits - and he’s been compared to both. Unfairly, I think; both Cohen and Waits have huge reputations, and who’d want that kind of comparison to live up to?   Any such surface comparison seems facile, as Race simply comes from his own place, following his own thread, and his huge result is bound to have overlap. The second song, "Poor Boy", is a Pierce/Race number recalling his two tracks on two of the three "Jeffrey Lee Pierce Session Project" LPs; again "Poor Boy" is a stunning, swirling piece. "Hematite", "Lip Service" and "Magnetic Girl" follow.
- I94BAR, Brokenmouth

Tracklist

1.	False Idols	5:37

2.	Poor Boy	4:13

3.	Hematite	3:37

4.	Lip Service	3:49

5.	Magnetic Girl	3:35

Credits

released October 16, 2015

Hugo Race - Michelangelo Russo - Hellhound Brown - Bryan Colechin - Nico Mansy - Brett Poliness.
Recorded at Soundpark, Melbourne, engineered by Andrew 'Idge' Hehir.
Mix and post-production at Helixed.

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