‘Messages’ by Xavier Rudd
Apr
12
Written by:
4/12/2007
New sounds with an ecological bent from Aussie surf pop artist Xavier Rudd
Rudd is, along with Jack Johnson and Donanvon Frankenreiter, one of the foremost practitioners of contemporary surf pop. Rudd hails from Australia and is, like Jack and Don, both an adept surfer and an expert guitarist. His songs have an ecological or spiritual bent and sometimes employ that much derided antipodean instrument the didgeridoo to great effect. Rudd played Whelans last year to an audience of ex pat Aussies and those paddies who had spent a year out down under but, with the release of his new album’ Food In The Belly’ over here by Anti Records, it won’t be long before he gains a wider Irish audience. ‘Messages’ is a fine example of his style, a foot stomping guitar riff over which Rudd lays a lyric concerned with both the ecological future of our planet and the state of our own souls.