Cargo Records

Kit

This is the debut solo full length CD from The Rebel aka Ben Wallers. Known to too few as the primary force behind Scotland's the-Fall-by-way-of-the-Louvin-Brothers indescribably unique sons The Country Teasers.

KIT finds Ben going places we haven't quite heard from him before. As a core component of The Country Teasers, The Rebel has been releasing albums for more then a decade now, and for that, we should all be thankful. Wallers has been producing at a prolific pace, releasing records on a list of the three best record labels of the 90's,Crypt, Fat Possum, and In The Red. Wallers's music is filled with complex contradictions that form a miraculous, seamless whole. Modernistic sounds peacefully share sonic space with rootsy Americana. By turns both approaching avante garde (without any of the pretention that implies) and openly accessible, Wallers's music can aurally mesh the most bombastic and overtly aggressive alongside nakedly sentimental, beautiful ballads. Lyrically it can go from offensive parodies of the worst quality of American white male to sincere sentiment, in the space of a few notes. It's quintessentially American, as interpreted by a native English child prodigy who can speak six languages. Ask Blur. Ask Pavement. "Ask The A-Frames. Ask Franz Ferdinand. Ask The Greg Cartwright. Ask Mick Collins. Trust the words of John McKeown, they will all tell you: Ben Wallers is a true original, and The Rebel is Ben's music at its most pure." - Monty Buckles, The Lamps