The commanding presence of Heartless Bastards' Erika Wennerstrom - who sings, plays guitar and writes the band's songs - dominates all four of Heartless Bastards' albums, including their latest, Arrow.
While the rawness of the group's early days has since been refined, a current of tension still roils just beneath the surface. It may open as a lazy shuffle, but the single 'Parted Ways' builds and builds, hanging onto every confidently delivered word until it blooms into a sprawling guitar solo retreats to calmer terrain and finally accelerates with abandon.