Wowee; you know something is good when it rocks you and leaves you a little shaken up. Maybe it was just the frames of a snake coiling around Devan DuBois‘ hand, or maybe it was the never-broken tension that climbs in his video for "Long Live" that made me rewatch it a few times trying to figure out why my skin was crawling just a wee bit. It could be that the video’s stark black and white spaghetti Westernisms conjured up some associations with Jim Jarmusch’s "Dead Man," and… that’s a journey I’m not quite ready to take again. Anyway, it’s a great visual complement to DuBois’ hyperactive sweep of Southern rock. His debut album, "Le Fou" (French for "The Fool") was just released on August 19th on Sensibility Music. With a hip-hop mind in it’s beatmaking but a definite twang resonating throughout, it ought to be a primer on how genres should combine. -Terra James-Jura