Most folks know how we like a decent murder ballad on MM, and have we got a gem for you today.

Along the lines of Ween’s Buenos Tardes Amigos or Weddings Parties Anything’s A Tale They Won’t Believe, Billy Vincent’s Ballad of Billy Vincent is a seven minute London-based epic of brutal murder full of plot twists and turns, and delivering a stunning final denouement that puts it on a par with those two aforementioned classics.

It is a peculiarly English tale – one that references “taverns” and talks of “snifters”, and it brilliantly manages to fuse modern folk to the storytelling tales of the past. In fact to MM’s ears, it has echoes of classic era Men They Couldn’t Hang.

The track closes their debut album She, which was released via Something Nothing Records (order it here), but best of all it is available for free download via their Facebook page here – or you can watch the brilliantly animated video by Brighton artist Ellie Ford first.

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