Sister Ray Davies are a duo from Muscle Shoals, Alabama, who have both played as session musicians in the kind of bands you'd imagine might inhabit Muscle Shoals. The music they make as Sister Ray Davies sounds nothing like that and the album they've just released was inspired by Holy Island, Lindisfarne, Northumbria, a place that is a very long way from Muscle Shoals in all sorts of ways.
The Sister Ray Davies sound takes early 90s shoegaze and FX pedal psychedelia as its starting point, early Ride, Spacemen 3, Slowdive... the single Aidan is a beauty, all shimmer, haze and slow burning guitar melodies, and a tribute to St. Aidan, the Irish monk who converted the Anglo- Saxons of Northumbria to Christianity who died in 651 AD.
Big Ships, Viking ships presumably, followed, layers of sound, a shoegaze wall of guitars but with a driving rhythm pushing it on...
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