The first thing to say is that this is really...well, piratey. Really piratey. Jack Sparrow, Long John Silver, peg-leg, eye-patch and parrot piratey. You could go into this album completely blind and end up going "yo-ho-ho" while swinging a cutlass in five seconds flat.
Opener 'Beastly Buccaneers'' fiddle and flute shows you exactly where you're heading on this trip, and it's forty fathoms down, me hearty. 'Dead Men Tell No Tales' brings the same vibe, keeping the echoey percussion, while adding brass stabs.
'The Pirate's Curse' features staccato chants over scratchy, witchy vocal samples that makes it sound like you really are being cursed, possibly by Gollum, and then we go electric with 'Treasure of Oblivion' - guitar riffs over the returning flutes and reverby violins are the order of the day here.
The mysterious woodblock and downtempo atmospherics of 'On The Treasure Trail' lead us to 'Thar Be Devil to Pay', (sadly only one R) where the military drums and drawn-out strings hold sway. The mood is sustained through 'Sea Wolves' into 'Skull and Bones', with returning chant samples and bass work.
We finish up on 'The Lookout', with picked guitar and cymbal washes sustaining the melody under ethereal strings, before rip-roaring closer 'Batten Down the Hatches' ups the tempo for a last rum-soaked hurrah.
So in conclusion, if you fancy a bit of pirate radio (sorry), then this soundtrack is one that your ears will thank you for. The album is available on Bandcamp, YouTube, plus all the usual streaming services.
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