Armoured Man. “Hind Legs” Review
Armoured Man “Hind Legs”
Release Date December 2025
Over a quarter of the way through the 21st Century, and seventy odd years into the game, where do multi-instrumentalist, acoustic duo Armoured Man fit into the byzantine cross pollinations of popular musical genres? Alt-Folk? Trad Alt-Rock, Celtic Post- Hardcore- Folk-Rock Fusion? (just made that one up) A problem for Spotify, I think.
Regardless of genre, Adam Thomas and Louise Berale, with the release of their second Album “Hind Legs” have created an edgy but contrarywise beautifully melodic and expertly crafted set of songs that will (siren like) lull you into a false sense of security and wellbeing. If you don't listen to the lyrics that is. Crisply mastered by Frank Turner, tracks which include “Hands, “Churches”, Swim” “Fathers”, and “Lightning Bolt” explore themes of “climate breakdown, geological time, faith, fatherhood, and a deeply uncertain future”. Lighten up boys you might say. But someone has to say this stuff. Anyway, as dear, dear, Joni once sang “There’s comfort in melancholy”
So, five stars (which you will have to visualise as I don’t know how to generate them)
The Velvet Curtain
January 2026
Teaser track below:
Holland On Sea
Holland On Sea -Armoured Man