![]() When King runs out of verses and a long, boisterous drum roll fills the vacuum, it’s definitely not hard to guess what’s coming. ![]() Drummer David Prowse keeping a thumping, nervous beat, maximizing then minimizing. ![]() King is too polite to detail his seductive techniques, which are successful, and combine a true believer’s zeal with a 17-year-old’s proto-hornball vernacular:Įach verse triggers a ghostly refrain of “Sha-na-na-na-na / Sha-na-na-na-na-naaah,” by the way. Anyway, there’s a special lady! “A whirlwind, a woman, and a famous feelin’,” to be precise. It’s probably dominoes, as in the popular tile-based game, but Domino’s is way funnier, and these fellas probably eat a lot of pizza, too. … that flourishes even amid Canada’s subzero chill: (Get a load of the album title Near to the Wild Heart of Life, while you’re at it.) It’s three minutes and change of the same four chords and change, breathless and exuberant, singer-guitarist Brian King’s vocals lovestruck and pie-eyed and not a little silly. Get a load of “No Known Drink or Drug,” from the Vancouver duo’s new album, Near to the Wild Heart of Life, out this Friday and streaming for free via NPR now.
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