JOHNNY DOWD
Temporary Shelter (Koch)
Reviewed by John Sekerka

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Good God somebody call the cops! A master of the gloomy dirge, Johnny Dowd sends creepy shivers up and down my yellow spine with disturbing ease. Even when the tempo shifts to something with timely beats, Dowd manages to sustain an unnerving cloud with chilling subject matter delivered with an insistently monotone delivery. The music is stretched on this his third record, though Dowd feverishly holds on to his chief forte: creating addictively fascinating songs with the unsettling ability to make anyone squirm. Powerful stuff not to be taken lightly.

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