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The Golden Dregs


The Golden Dregs continue to emit gilded rays of pleasure for our ears with the new single ‘Before We Fell From Grace’. The Golden Dregs is the creative outlet for Benjamin Woods and the new track eases out the usual ethereal, profound delicate entrails of sounds that wrap around Wood’s extraordinary vocals: deep, sonorous, whispered …

I have been a long time fan of the GOLDEN DREGS – the single ‘Nobody Ever Gets Rich (by Making People Sad)’ remains one of my top five favourite releases of the past ten years – and it is brilliant to hear of their signing to the legendary 4AD label and news of a new …

Released back in June 2019, ‘Nobody Ever Got Rich (By Making People Sad)’ by The Golden Dregs, still remains for me one of the most outstanding singles I’ve ever reviewed for Backseat Mafia. For some reason, I never got to review the later album, the brilliant ‘Hope is for the Hopeless’, but The Golden Dregs are back …

Every now and again you hear a track that just instantly knocks you out. Nobody Ever Got Rich (By Making People Sad), by The Golden Dregs, is one such song. Part Tindersticks, with a dash of Lou Reed, a drop of Tom Waites and a touch of Nick Cave, it is a song of impossible …