The White Buffalo launches new song full of 'balls and swagger'

The White Buffalo, aka singer-songwriter Jake Smith, has released Madam’s Soft, Madam’s Sweet, a track from his upcoming sixth album Darkest Darks, Lightest Lights. The album is the follow-up to 2015’s Love & The Death of Damnation.

The song starts off with just guitar and voice, and builds slowly, adding drama and tension as it progresses, before climaxing with a cathartic howl.

“It’s about losing yourself in sin after a breakup,” says Smith. “This song has more balls and swagger than anything I’ve ever done. The bridge goes into a post punk, almost Joy Division change ending with a demonic scream: ‘Money and lust and your mind gets blown.’”

Recently, The White Buffalo talked about the new album with AXS. “It’s an expansion of sounds,” he says. “I definitely went through different musical landscapes and characters. As far as the attitude of the album - it has a little more swagger, a little more rock, a little more urgency than in the past.”

Darkest Darks, Lightest Lights is released on October 13, and can be pre-ordered now. The White Buffalo starts a US tour next month, before coming to the UK for a series of dates next April.

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Darkest Darks, Lightest Lights Track Listing

1. Hide and Seek
2. Avalon
3. Robbery
4. The Observatory
5. Madam’s Soft, Madam’s Sweet
6. Nightstalker Blues
7. If I Lost My Eyes
8. Border Town/Bury Me in Baja
9. The Heart and Soul of the Night
10. I Am the Moon

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