Having toured the UK either side of the pandemic to promote his two studio albums to date (‘Everything Is Fine’ and ‘Born Against’), the unique and charismatic solo artist Amigo The Devil aka Danny Kiranos has recently announced his first ever tour on this side of the Atlantic with a full band.
Currently on a US trek supporting Clutch, ATD and Co will begin a month long European run in Paris on 1st June before arriving in Brighton in the middle of the month for UK & RoI shows that conclude on 2nd July in Cork. The full schedule is as follows:
Album
BORN AGAINST
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(Liars Club/Regime Music Group)
“A starkly beautiful tapestry on which genres are seemingly picked from a tombola and emotions torn from the depths. Angular and brilliant”
CLASSIC ROCK
“An inventive genre mash-up of backwoods Americana, Spaghetti Western soundtracks and Eastern European folk, all shot through with eccentric jazz impulses 4/5”
RNR
“A highly accomplished and skilfully arranged collection”
SHINDIG!
“Innermost thoughts spill out of extremely powerful, compelling and challenging songs”
BLUES MATTERS
“Rarely does an album contain so much soul, emotion and mastery of the art of storytelling, conveyed through such warmth, passion and sincerity”
LOUDER THAN WAR
“Darkly romantic, hauntingly melodic and flecked with effective experimental embellishments, it reinforces the adage that the devil truly does have all the best tunes”
FOLK RADIO UK
Renowned for his dark and macabre yet humorous storytelling, ‘Born Against’ (2021) expanded ATD’s repertoire with romantic, philosophical and emotional narratives achieved without sacrificing the genre-bending style that has earned him critical acclaim and a passionate worldwide following. Harnessing world music alongside inspiration from master storytellers such as Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen plus contemporaries like Fiona Apple and Father John Misty, the album is packed with vivid, cinematic tales of flawed protagonists on songs full of beautifully haunting melodies embellished with crashes, clashes, clicks, clangs and stomps.
‘Born Against’ is the follow up to ATD’s 2018 debut, ‘Everything Is Fine’, which connected with fans of rock, folk, Americana, country, metal and more. Opening with the modern Americana classic ‘Cocaine And Abel’, it showed off Kiranos’ immense talent as an unflinching raconteur and emotive vocalist, while the album built on the promise of his first three EPs collected together as ‘Volume 1’ earlier that year.
COCAINE AND ABEL
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