The 2015 release of Crook and The Bluff’s debut album, Down To the Styx portrays the sonic landscape they’ve been refining since the band’s birth in 2013 that is akin to the vast desert itself, whose influence permeates their music. They’ve crafted a powerful stage presence equipped with an arsenal of songs depicting lust, love, murder and malevolence, in which Dath’s powerful, booming baritone and piercing falsetto interplay seamlessly with Wilford’s harmonies, and fierce guitar work. When they slow it down, the music takes on an eerily beautiful calm that lulls the listener into a trance, only to be slapped right out of it.