Whisky, Tape Machines, Delta Blues, Early Electric Blues, Music 1920-1975, John Lee Hooker, RL, Howlin’ Wolf, Hound Dog Taylor, Link Wray, The Sonics, various other Rock n’ Roll badasses.
Sounds Like
This is also what it looks like.
"They come out of your speakers like a big ole’ wall of distorted Mississippi Blues meets punk rock"
- ninebullets.net
"One of the Top 33 1/3 albums of 2008"
- Daibhid James, CKLN
"Fat Possum should sign these guys immediately"
- Soundproof Magazine
"Hell yeah. That’s all I really need to say about Toronto’s The Speaking Tongues.”
- Herohill.com 'Best of 2008'
"Lovely and Dirty, just how we like it."
- BBC Bristol / Introducing
"Mississippi-soaked intensity"
- EYE Magazine
"Absolute Killer... Probably one of the best things I've heard this year"
- Way Past Cool Podcast, Garagpunk
"Doyle’s gutsy, heavy guitar riffs combined with Ross’s bludgeoning-to-near-death of the drums strike at the heart of raw blues."
- The Town Crier
"The Speaking Tongues are a band not to be missed"
- Radio Whatwave, CHRW London
"Masculine musical thunder"
- History Jen, Narratives
"If you are from Toronto and have never seen The Speaking Tongues then shame on you. This twosome never fails to deliver a good time."
- NXEW
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The Speaking Tongues inject punk energy into raw blues -
equal parts Detroit Garage and Mississippi Boogie.
Every show is simple, just turn it up and let’er rip... The result is a full volume
blues trash throw down best experienced with ear plugs and loose morals.
No need for the flowery descriptions though,
this is just two guys playing their guts out.
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That was a great set at The Silver Dollar. An explosive hard-edged blues sound that blasts through with an instinctive, raw approach. A fiery, propulsive collaboration proving that tradition survives with amazing potency.
