Album Info

New Threats From The Soul

Indie Rock - 2025

Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band’s New Threats from the Soul is the kind of funny, rambling, junk-shop-scouring, bumper-sticker-talking, dollar-draft-guzzling... more

Tracklist

1

New Threats From The Soul

9:21 min
2

Monte Carlo / No Limits

5:55 min
3

Mutilation Springs

11:49 min
4

Better If You Make Me

6:00 min
5

The Simple Joy

7:29 min
6

Mutilation Falls

9:25 min
7

Crass Shadows (at Walden Pawn)

7:07 min

About New Threats From The Soul

Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band’s New Threats from the Soul is the kind of funny, rambling, junk-shop-scouring, bumper-sticker-talking, dollar-draft-guzzling daydream on which minor indie legends are born. The songs here unfurl with the workmanlike self-pity of ’90s country (“New Threats from the Soul”) or Springsteen anthems on salaries not yet adjusted for inflation (“Monte Carlo / No Limits”), dappled with Casio flutes and drum machines whose not-quite prime-time textures only go to fill in the blanks where Davis’ walls of lyrics drop off. His characters are hopeless wrecks redeemed only (and then only occasionally) by their insistence to get up off their dumb asses and try again, and yet reveal in that dumbass insistence something beautiful, or at least true. “The Spanish moss, it weeps in mourning of/Not only personal but also planetary loss/Not just for the bloodshed, but, by god, for what the Bloody Marys cost,” he sings on the opening of “Mutilation Springs.” Then there’s eight more minutes. Call it busy doin’ nothing.