Album Review: New Threats From The Soul by Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band

''Are we getting any closer to me knowing what the point of this is", Davis enquires at one point during the seven extensive, rambling yet also somehow - contradictorily - focused tracks that make up New Threats From The Soul. Initially the listener might be prone to ask the same. Distilling the sprawling blend of trod-upon but unbeaten inner monologues, wearily shrugging everyday absurdism and bittersweet observations of a really quite mad world getting ever more crazed at an alarming pace established by David Berman (Silver Jews/Purple Mountains) and Lambchop's Kurt Wagner, Louisville, Kentucky-based Davis is a proudly, even defiantly digressive writer, with tunes stretching up to 10 minutes and packing more verses than a poetry anthology, stretching like a well-knead dough to keep up with Davis's vividly sprawling free associations.

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Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band’s New Threats From the Soul features another seven jam-packed tracks that require ample time for listeners to appreciate fully. Davis, a Louisville, Kentucky native (now stationed across the Ohio River in Jeffersonville, Indiana), was the leader of the band State Champion. His work with the Roadhouse Band sees him achieve the same level as his idols, as opposed to his former band’s “punked-up country gunk”.

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