Music For All Reviews DCxPC Live Vol. 22 Sticky Steven, Borrowed Sparks, Jacob Danielsen-Moore, and Dougie Flesh & The Slashers

Aug 24

Written By Mr. P

We have yet another launch of the vigorous and necessary DCxPC Live project, which since the pandemic period has transformed recorded shows into immediate transmissions. Here we have the artist's appreciation on stage, where his music is emancipated in more real probabilities, and also the release of these presentations in fancy vinyl editions, in a stylistic homage to a remarkable period: VMLive records in the nineties!

And so a real fever was formed, with the easing of the pandemic, more shows were recorded again for this purpose, including the “Live & Dead” edition (live on one side and dead (studio) on the other!). Really an INCREDIBLE initiative and we have a fantastic history of many releases from this project, all of which were remarkable for the bands, public and specialized critics. One of the most enthusiastic premises to emerge in recent times! But as the production is truly incessant, here we have another impactful endeavor from DCXPC LIVE DCxPC Live: Vol. 22 Sticky Steve, Borrowed Sparks, Jacob Danielsen-Moore and Dougie Flesh & The Slashers, Original Album!

We have a bit of everything here stylistically in terms of sound: Sticky Steve drinks from the pop punk source, Jacob Danielsen-Moore brings folk traditions and ethnic precepts with a unique personality, Borrowed Sparks walks with care through classic country-music from Nashville and Dougie Flesh drunk on the psychobilly vibe. We at the Music For All portal are great enthusiasts of this series and we will dissect track by track of this most recent firecracker of irreproachable prerogatives in its intent!

Sticky Steve opens the work with “Cathedrals”, promoting a poignant duel between the acoustic arrangement and his voice worthy of being highlighted: timbres and exasperated feeling, right doses of emotional and technical eagerness at high levels. Driving punk in this format really is a spectacle in itself, with the “message” being conveyed in an urgent but impactful way! And so, after “having a chat” with the public, the artist continues his intimate intent in “Vultures”, but exhausting all the primal precepts that the style propagates. Its magnetism impresses in the face of a minimalist proposal, but largely accurate.

“Waves” closes its sequence in predictions with “more delicious dirt”, where the guitar is beaten in a visceral way and again we have a voice that promotes a very high level show. The audience rightly goes down, the guy on stage alone is enough, and the recording conveys all this explosion of talent. ANGRY!

It's the turn of Borrowed Sparks, also following the spontaneous and raw line of the previous singer and composer. But here, the linearity in the “troubadour” style when leading the narrative of the songs, is a differential of magnanimous proportions. We refer to the folk-country legend John Sebastian in his compositions (although Bruce Springsteen would also sign this brilliant repertoire!), but exhausting personality through the pores and denoting his imposing conceptual identity.

There are three songs that touch us by the force they emanate, simultaneously transcending a sensitivity that touches us deeply immediately. “Are You Listening”, “Man With A Different Name” (with the use of the harmonica “cutting” the magnificently recited melodies!) and the touching (strong blues-gospel accent) “Patron Saint”, show an artist in his absolute fullness . Big, reflective firecrackers that hit the crowd for sure, and luckily we have these DCXPC LIVE DCxPC records to hear these gems on vinyl!

With great enthusiasm, Jacob Danielsen-Moore enters his folk emerged from the Appalachian mountains, in a symbiosis with the most furtive genres in absolute cohesion! We really have the folkloric intent being presented with the melodic fury of a punk-hardcore, and it's impressive how the guy manages to deliver a powerful sound, which at no time would any unwary reflect something like “there could be a band”… No, this is the great differential of the guy as we see in “Coke Dick Motorcycle Awesonome”, where his singing starts from the guts, conveys all the pain that transcends his style: poetic verve about hurt, heartbreak and also victories in the face of adversity.

“OF (Only Fans)” maintains the beauty of the chords of yesteryear, as well as the strong and hoarse singing, with an invaluable rocker feeling. Every word ends up coming with the weight of a “meteor shower”, such intensity of each syllable emanated. INCREDIBLE! “Deep Valley” closes its sequence with an accelerated tempo, like a runaway roller coaster, because here the “message” is conveyed in an angry but moving way. By the way, by investing in this “folk-punk” line, the DCXPC LIVE DCxPC Live project, in this Vol. 22 marks another “great goal” in its trajectory, an incredible set of unplugged records with active public participation. WONDERFUL! But there's still more…

Dougie Flesh & The Slashers dive headlong into psychobilly, unleashing an unprecedented party and breaking up some of the previously beautiful but contemplative scene. Here it is for us to enter the unprecedented sensory journey of this valiant march, and shake our skeletons with the enthusiasm that firecrackers determine. The hymns “I Want To Believe”, “Printerdix” and “Something In The Shadows” are a true CLASSROOM in how to taste the genre in acoustic levels with several melodic minutiae and with all the contextual enthusiasm of the style. Simply SENSATIONAL!

Congratulations to yet another fantastic work by DCXPC LIVE DCxPC Live, as in this Vol. 22 it completely escapes the obvious, surprises and presents yet another work of the highest level! Long live the curation that manages to connect great names like Sticky Steve, Borrowed Sparks, Jacob Danielsen-Moore and Dougie Flesh & The Slashers. We can only TASTING and THANK YOU! Available below:

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