A Price For My Soul by The Bateleurs is a descent through repeated despair and bargains

A leather jacket, beer ice cold in hand, with worn out black boots grazing over an old road pavement — A Price For My Soul by The Bateleurs is a descent through repeated despair and bargains.

Hailing from Lisbon, the band releases a rock song heavy with Blues influences, offering a glimpse of their anticipated album “A Light In The Darkness”. If you ever loved Led Zeppelin or Janis Joplin, this track might be for you.

It opens with thumping bass drum beats accompanied by rough guitar riffs, filling the space with grit and stubbornness with its arrangement. The layers of the track will throw you in the middle of the lonely road in a city at midnight, walking as if there’s nothing to lose and you’re charging forward with only one last chance.

While there’s a sense of defiance and resilience from its fuzzy riffs and loud percussion hits, the way it’s written sounds like a prayer shouted into void as the words are laid out without an ounce of hypocrisy. Every verse seeps and steadies into my ears through the vocals that are on-point, I can’t even imagine this song being delivered and expressed in any other way.

Overall, A Price For My Soul by The Bateleurs is like moving and surging ahead all while being bruised and beaten from all the twists and turns of life, it’s a bargain in the dark, a plea not to be saved but to merely survive.