Bang Bang Boss Kelly - Bang Bang Boss Kelly

The quartet have built on their southern rock influences filling their songs with finger-picked melodies, lazy harmonica and rambling Banjo. Lone Rider kicks off with the ebb and flow of a waltz which highlights vocalist Chris Drage with his husky Kings of Leon style croon. Boneyards sails perilously close to Mumford and Sons territory with its introduction but thankfully that’s where the similarities end. Each song is a story of the trial of city live, presented in a style that yearns of sleepy rural areas and vast outback landscapes. Bang Bang Boss Kelly have managed to create a colourful palette of modern folk which harks back to an era when music was written with purpose and when participants didn’t dress like 19th century dairy farmers. - Scott Thompson