Wednesday 1 April 2009

The Mighty Stef - 100 Midnights


(AU magazine, April 2009)

Album review

The Firstborn Is Dead Recordings

With the sleazy swagger of a crew of sailors, The Mighty Stef, aka Dubliner Stefan Murphy, takes on all comers with this second album.
100 Midnights is drenched with the hopelessness of the drunk and the desperate, the hungover and the hellish.
There are notable guest appearances from two former Pogues - Cait O'Riordan on 'Safe At Home', and Shane himself on 'Waitin' Round To Die'. Vocally in line with a Tom Waits drawl, the grimy rock stylings of this offering mark a leap in musical maturity from debut The Sins Of Saint Catherine.

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