Taste Test: Bad Flamingo only sing bittersweet harmony while ‘The House is on Fire’
The nameless duo continue to shroud their music in a western charm.
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Acclaimed author Oscar Wilde once wrote in his 1891 essay, “The Critic as Artist,” on the implications of anonymity in revealing one’s true self. “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth,” he offered. Such a statement has taken on new meaning in the digital age, particularly in the advent of social media through which we all can build our own manufactured facade. Shrouded in their own mystery, nameless avant-garde duo Bad Flamingo pocket this notion with a jangle of Americana, a bluesy stomp and a haunted smokiness. With their new song called “The House is on Fire,” they swing their voices through the dust of the old west, as is their trusty way, and stage an entrancing cinematic piece that paints with tortured harmonies and flashes of the Golden Age of Hollywood. Their voices swirl, siren-like, gorgeous and pointed, and their fantastical world immerses the body with a deceptive charm.
“The House is on Fire” is the latest Bad Flamingo, following such releases as “Fire” and “I Said a Prayer Twice for Both My Faces.”
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