Taste Test: The Strangemakers can’t escape being ‘Shot Down’
The folk-rock band question what love means in a new live recording.
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Cupid’s quivering arrow is unreliable. No matter how good of an aim or how immovable a target, the end result is always a gamble. Folk-rock band The Strangemakers face off against an unwanted and dangerous fall-out, their very willingness to love coming into question. “Shot Down,” recorded live at Lincoln County Social Club, erodes with the knowledge that love is and was never an exact science. “You don’t know nothing ’bout hate / Till you’ve faced your tongue’s mistakes,” lead singer, songwriter and guitarist Alex McCulloch pulls back her own crossbow. Clocking in at only two minutes and 30 seconds, the band – also comprised of Tom Perry, Chris Lyttle and Sam Schwartzbein – play with both vulnerability and raw intensity that only emanates from such unruly heartbreak.
“Shot Down” is lifted from the band’s new album, Off the Floor, out everywhere now.
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