***HEAVEN’S JAIL’s new album is a raw 10-song set produced by Phosphorescent's MATTHEW HOUCK—the first time he's produced a band other than his own—and engineered by The Men's BEN GREENBERG. "FRANCESCO [FERORELLI, singer] is my favorite kind of songwriter: sensitive but not sappy, smart but not precious," Houck says. "He has the ability to casually sneak complex imagery and metaphor into a deceptively simple package. It's just great songwriting. Simple as that." These are songs for the zeros, for the down-and-out playing their last hand, desperately hoping to pull an ace from their sleeve but coming up empty-handed. Owing as much to Thin Lizzy as it does to Kris Kristofferson, Ace Called Zero draws from band members' earliest influences.
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09/16/2014