Blog: heartbreak tango

Easily one of the best bands you haven't yet heard, London duo Congregation gut, clean, and dirty up the blues in their own way. It's hard not to see True Blood listening to the band's self-titled debut LP. Congregation's "Don't Pay No Mind" is a bluesy fever dream, and Victoria Yeulet's haunted, Prohibition Era vocal turn is unforgettably chilling. Yeulet plays leg bells, and their lazy, off presence is in direct conflict with the urgent, rigid pulse of Benjamin Prosser's slide guitar and bass drum. "Feel Like Crying" is a southern heat spell, due more to sex than [...]

• Congregation - Don't Pay No Mind
• Congregation - Feel Like Crying