Pop/Folk - When AA Bondy released his solo debut album American Hearts in 2007, few would have imagined the remarkable, 180 degree turn from a decade before when he (as Scott Bondy) and the hard rocking Alabama grungers Verbena released their Nirvana-ish epic Into The Pink. Conversely, Hearts was an intimate, stark and stripped album of compelling roots-laden folk/rock, punctuated with harmonica fills, foot-tapping acoustic strums and Bondy's own aching, elderberry-wine-sweet vocals. "Crushingly beautiful", raved one critic, "...pure, sophisticated, Dylan-esque compositions with solid conviction, quiet determination and grace far beyond his years."

When The Devil's Loose (Fat Possum) continues to kick the musical can further down the rural, dusty road, ten tracks filled with eloquent turns of phrase - musically and lyrically - that burn with a mournful, sometimes mesmerizing low heat. Bondy himself describes the project as sounding "like a radio washed ashore after a shipwreck," exemplified by songs such as the shuffling title track and bluesy, cut-to-the-bone basic Southern traditionalism of "Oh The Vampyre".

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