Name: Black Angel Drifter
Brand: Morton Valence

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COWFIVECD

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Limited edition

Release date

2021-02-19

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

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Morton Valence

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Country / Americana

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Cow Pie Records

Morton Valence is an acclaimed artist known for their unique blend of indie folk and alternative country music. With a career spanning over two decades, they have captivated audiences with their heartfelt lyrics and soulful melodies.

Influenced by artists such as Jason McNiff, The Arlenes, and Dave Sutherland, Morton Valence has carved out their own distinct sound that resonates with listeners. Their music combines elements of Americana, blues, and rock to create a captivating sonic experience.

With a discography that includes albums like "Frank From Blue Velvet" and "4D Jones," Morton Valence has garnered critical acclaim and a dedicated fan base. Their live performances are known for their energy and emotional intensity, leaving audiences wanting more.

Black Angel Drifter is an album of unorthodox ’country’ music and unlike anything you’ve heard before. This, the seventh studio offering from Morton Valence (Anne Gilpin and Robert ‘Hacker’ Jessett), started life as their experimental side-project back in 2016. Notwithstanding more recent events, 2016 was quite a year, and whilst the band were preoccupied with other ventures Black Angel Drifter would bide its time. Fast forward to 2020 and ‘Black Angel Drifter’s extraordinary sentiment could not resonate louder. The album features ten tracks. From the explosive intro of ‘Skylines Change / Genders Blur’, coming at you like the illegitimate lovechild of The Jesus and Mary Chain and Ennio Morricone, to the down-at-heel Black-Eyed Susan, replete with sweaty priest and bullwhips, Morton Valence also flirt with the blues on Sister Pain, deliver sorrowful, divine love songs like ‘The Visit’ &amp; ’Hymn Four’ and breathe fresh discordant life into the late 80s Bob Dylan classic The Man with the Long Black Coat. As antithesis to a no regrets-type torch song If I Could Start Again, where a man recounts his misspent life from a prison cell, could have been penned by Merle Haggard. The unrelenting Trail of Tears is more akin to late-70’s Martin Rev robotics than anything ever created on a guitar. Alongside Gilpin and Hacker, Alan Cook’s sublime pedal steel guitar is omnipresent throughout the album. Black Angel Drifter is an alt-country album that puts the rulebook through the shredder and starts again, set to give UK Alt-country an authentic new voice of its own, a voice that is genuinely original, new and exciting.

Black Angel Drifter

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