Dallas rock band Ottoman Turks bring the fire and noise, Texas-style. See why they're an Artist You Need to Know
, a Eurasian road race, and gave himself “Mongol” as a middle name; upon returning to the region on a study-abroad program, he’d spend days riding around Jordan on a bus listening to Tom Waits. “I put his whole discography on my iPod and soaked myself in that,” he says. “I was learning about the Middle East, but was also listening to the American canon.”
After gigging around Dallas, Ottoman Turks added Walker as lead guitarist in 2012, and their rowdy onstage antics — ripping never-to-be-duplicated-again solos, downing shots, crowd surfing — made them a draw in the city’s Deep Ellum neighborhood. Last summer, they finally got around to releasing their debut album, a self-titled record produced by John Pedigo that captures the Turks’ wild abandon.
Wells describes the band’s mish-moshed sound as “outlaw-country-garage-rock.” “Our bassist coined the term, which sums it up really well.”are a good representation of the band. “Apathy” is a melodic slice of singalong jangle-rock that evokes the Black Lips and the Nude Party. “Snake Song,” the Turks’ standard show closer, rumbles along with Hinojo’s frenetic drumming and Wells’ snarling vocal. “Glass Bottles” nods to the foursome’s country roots.
That loud and heavy approach distinguishes Ottoman Turks — and peers like Ramones-meet-mariachi band the Vandoliers — from other Texas acts, many of whom reside in the dusty vibes of the Red Dirt scene. But Wells says they go over well with that crowd, too. “We’ve been put on some weird bills, but we have just enough of whatever it is that it kind of works. Maybe it’s just that there’s a Texas element to it,” he says. “It’s more of a blood thing than a sound.
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