While a fair number of rock musicians of a certain vintage seem to ease into a mellow kind of semi-acoustic middle-age, Pretenders sidemen James Walbourne and Kris Sonne have felt the need to scratch a raw, bleeding rock’n’roll itch with their new band His Lordship, and this year’s second album from them, Bored Animal, is a supremely refreshing blast of high-octane, garage-rooted R&B.
Titles like that and stand-out numbers such as I Fly Planes Into Hurricanes and The Sadness Of King Kong hint that this is anything but mid-tempo, ponderous stuff, although idiosyncratic psych diversions add further intrigue. We caught up with Walbourne in while His Lordship were taking their splenetic live show to the US.
