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Viarosa are not the first band to make sombre folk-influenced rock music. But they do it pretty well. Theirs is a stately, measured blend of guitars of many more traditional kinds, violins and the kind of bleary-eyed vocal drawl that makes you think there’s a cheroot fixed permanently to its bottom lip (even during the rather odd half-Bowie impression on Blood from a Stone).
It makes for an atmospheric accompaniment to a late night bottle of whiskey - at its best when reflecting UK rather than US folk influences (for instance on Call to Arms). And of course it has been compared to everyone you’d expect slightly gloomy folk to draw comparisons with (I’ll let you guess). Where it perhaps misses out in those comparisons is its lack of an outlaw edge. It’s just a bit po-faced and lacking in the (self-) mocking sneer and dark humour that might have made it properly compelling.
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