Mettle, Lincoln’s first full-length album (following on from the critical acclaim of both Barcelona and Kibokin mini albums) crackles and strums like a desert-baked old gramophone would. Decidedly unheavy Mettle--unlike the band’s mid-1990s incarnation--this takes in the heady twilight atmosphere of a long summer’s evening following the broken roads down to Mexico (what do you expect from a band named after Lincoln Fargo in Jim Thompson’s Heed the Thunder?) while dusty trombones and muted trumpets are swept across the widescreen vista.
Drums played and recording tracked by Crum at Balbithan House.
