On their fifth album 'Skeleton Rites', Finnish band PLAIN RIDE move away from the Americana-tinged folk rock of their previous releases in favour of darker and deeper tones. The seven lengthy songs flow and grow insidiously by subtle changes in the undercurrent, with the band's trademark effortless groove and Janne Westerlund's distinctively hoarse vocals on the surface. This is a blues album created with a mindset of a West-African proto-doom band, recorded in Finland 2014.