iSound

“If Ned Kelly was a woman, with a penchant for vicious amphetamines, and her gang used honey mandolins to flail the wicked:they would sound like this.” Rising like banshees, out of the mist shrouded Victorian mountaintops of Melbourne’s darker woods - guitar, double bass and a voice soaring between intense syrupy lilts and raucous growling:they are The Bitter Sweets. A wild garden of influences: earthy Americana, a spice of blues, a diamante of rockabilly, many a train song, love lost and longing. Their pearl-inlaid tales are set out in an ocean of honeysuckle guitars, having stewed in a history of 60’s garage rock, they are charcoal filtered to deliver a fine liqueur of rollicking bitter sweet roots gold. Spanning the breadth of bluegrass, country, folk and blues but delivering something altogether new, with a depth of understanding that belies all of these genres. Reaping a bountiful harvest of supports with the likes of Jen Cloher, The Handsome Family, Mia Dyson & Sara L...