Sam Mickens Ecstatic Showband - Burning Hell - 7" Vinyl

Sam Mickens, now of Sam Mickens' Ecstatic Showband & Revue, more than convincingly applies his eerily light tenor and endless tremulous vibrato to a full r&b revival backing band, and the result is just as exciting as his other troupe. More foreboding than Curtis Mayfield, more aggressive than Mayer Hawthorne, these brass- and-reeds shenanigans are the perfect foil for the restless Mickens." Stacey Anderson, The Village Voice

A nuclear blast of atheist gospel, "Burning Hell" delivers a sermon of self-determinism and empowered hedonism, a rallying cry on the path through a troubled modern age. The video, directed again by the lovely Sue-Ling Braun, casts Mickens before a cultish congregation and features the full nine-piece Ecstatic Showband & Revue.