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Wo Fat – “Beggar’s Bargain” [Bandcamp Song Stream]

Next month, Wo Fat will release The Conjuring, their fifth full-length and second via the volume perpetrators at Small Stone.

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Next month, Wo Fat will release The Conjuring, their fifth full-length and second via the volume perpetrators at Small Stone. Much like their last two works – 2012’s The Black Code and 2011’s Noche del Chupacabra – The Conjuring is a heavy-riff/heavy-jam blast of a time, the sort of record that turns the vaguely interested into converts and makes the corners on squares look even sharper.

Guitarist/vocalist Kent Stump, bassist Tim Wilson and drummer/backing vocalist Michael Walter are jazz-combo tight and their roll is easy and natural, much like Fu Manchu, but far bigger and in the case of The Conjuring, far darker. There’s been a creature lurking in the woods since Wo Fat’s 2006 debut, The Gathering Dark. Their second album, 2009’s Psychedelonaut, pulled back on the threat some to lighten the mood, but whether it’s the motor-driven rush of “Read The Omens” or the you’re-already-lost-in-it riff-exploration of seventeen-minute closer “Dreamwalker,” The Conjuring is indeed a backwoods ritual. Bluesmen have sold their souls for less.

The Conjuring Track Listing:

01. The Conjuring
02. Read The Omens
03. Pale Rider From The Ice
04. Beggar’s Bargain
05. Dreamwalker

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