Bad Brains meets Foo Fighters in a black woman’s hair salon for a cup of tea. That's how New York-based outfit The 1865's fiery brand of blues-meets-punk.
Exhibit A of their sonic attack is "Buckshot," a grimy one minute and fifty-three seconds that kicks off with lead singer Carolyn “Honeychild” Coleman spitting out the lines "I'm running/Like OJ/Through the fields/These murders make me feel whole again." From there references to slavery, "Abe's America," emancipation and other 19th century political realities abound (lest you think their name is a mere act of whimsy).
"Buckshot" serves as the introduction to a LP that promises explore life in post-Emancipation America, furthering the band's agenda to, as band member Sacha Jenkins puts it, "create contemporary music that spoke to the past, but also spoke to the same things that continue to happen over and over again in our country.”
Listen to "Buckshot" below. The 1865's upcoming album Don't Tread On We! is due out on January 25.
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