Hurrah Marah!

This article came out 5 years ago today. Just a few days ago I found myself revisiting Angels of Destruction for the first time in a while and loving it  :)

Recorded in Brooklyn, Nashville and in a Pennsylvania cabin, Angels of Destruction!, released via Yep Roc, built on Marah’s signature sound: a combustible mix of acoustic string music and rebellious Replacements-like rock & roll fleshed out by imaginative lyrics. It was, by today’s increasingly broad definition, an Americana album, full of banjo, harmonica, clavinet, accordion, autoharp, horns, bells and bagpipes – one that would likely be celebrated by the music fans, journalists and insiders gathered at this week’s AmericanaFest in Nashville.

“Americana has always been a part of our vocab,” says Serge, whose Springsteen-like gift for mid-song storytelling onstage made him the raconteur of the band. “Dave and I lived through alt-country, which gave a rebirth to Americana trickling down into younger people’s discussions. You pick any one band and start to dig, before long you’re digging into the roots of something musically, even with a rock band that is using bagpipes. There’s your Scottish coal-mining influence. It’s all there.”