Album Review: New Threats From The Soul by Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band

''Are we getting any closer to me knowing what the point of this is", Davis enquires at one point during the seven extensive, rambling yet also somehow - contradictorily - focused tracks that make up New Threats From The Soul. Initially the listener might be prone to ask the same. Distilling the sprawling blend of trod-upon but unbeaten inner monologues, wearily shrugging everyday absurdism and bittersweet observations of a really quite mad world getting ever more crazed at an alarming pace established by David Berman (Silver Jews/Purple Mountains) and Lambchop's Kurt Wagner, Louisville, Kentucky-based Davis is a proudly, even defiantly digressive writer, with tunes stretching up to 10 minutes and packing more verses than a poetry anthology, stretching like a well-knead dough to keep up with Davis's vividly sprawling free associations.

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