Amigo the Devil has announced his third studio album, Yours Until the War Is Over, arriving February 23rd. The lead single “Cannibal Within” can be heard now.
As Amigo the Devil, singer-songwriter Danny Kiranos has garnered a significant following with his disarming, lyrically uncompromising brand of dark folk. “Cannibal Within” fits that description with its sparse banjo, haunted clink-clank percussion, and gripping poeticism: “All the parts we hate start adding up/ Until we find ourselves with more regret than blood.”
“There’s a tiny little cannibal inside of us all and it feeds on our insecurities,” commented Kiranos in a press release. “The more it feeds on doubt, jealousy and self devaluation, the bigger it grows until it becomes bigger than we ourselves are. And then we’re left with nothing. We lose the war.”
Yours Until the War Is Over was self-produced and recorded in a backwoods bar-turned-studio and channels Kiranos “maniac reading habit” and his two greatest songwriting influences: Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen. The album title is even a reference to the great Ernest Hemingway and his tragic love affair with Agnes von Kurowsky during World War I, the latter sometimes sending love letters to Hemingway with the closing salutation, “Yours until the war is over.”
Amigo the Devil is set to embark on a Fall 2023 US tour that kicks off October 9th in Philadelphia and runs through November 12th in Estes Park, Colorado. You can pick up tickets to his upcoming shows here.
Pre-order Yours Until the War Is Over via Amigo the Devil’s website, and stream “Cannibal Within” below.
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