The world doesn't seem to have any hold at all over Southern gothic preacher David Eugene Edwards, a cowboy with dusty boots and feverish eyes. He and his mates follow the trail that their haunted first two albums blazed, set in Hank Williams or Nick Cave's universe, with the Bible as their only source of inspiration. Their acoustic tracks, their crackling sound, their hypnotic atmospheres, and those dreary lyrics of which David Eugene alone has the secret -although he sings about love, he confesses, between fiery trifles, that he goes dancing in graveyards-, don't show any real evolution in 16HP's music. Yet, with "Secret South", the band becomes even more intense,beating the master of heavy atmospheres, Ennio Morricone, at his own game on certain tracks.

Translation by Magali