Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band, New Threats From the Soul 2025 Sophomore Lounge Records
A 100-word review of a new album by a singer-songwriter who packs in 100 words into a verse? Let's go. NTFTS is a dense soup of hickster literary tradition, echoes of Giant Sand, and easter egg cultural ephemera references.
Davis spins musical yarns that unravel and recombine with rustic-cosmic magical realism. Every listen reveals new sounds, turns o'phrase, and fuzzes out those deeper thoughts that have me screaming and begging for revolution from my barstool.
Only real heads will follow the Faulkner-esque Mutilation Springs/Falls song duology, so hang in there, recent converts to the 11-minute story-song.
Listen to it.
