Download: The Dead Ships, ‘Bones Cracked’

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As two-piece garage-rocks acts go, the Dead Ships are fisticuffs to Hanni El Khatib’s knife fight – the music of both can leave a mark. The Dead Ships’ buzzing barrage of guitar-and-drums comes recorded to analog tape on the duo’s debut album, “Electric Ahab,” released this month. Yes, the pool of blues duos has deepened over the past couple of years, but singer-guitarist Devlin McCluskey and drummer Christopher Spindelilus proved themselves worthy of the lineage with last year’s self-titled EP. “Electric Ahab” is 30 minutes of grit that expands their dynamic, a quality repped well by the ache of “Bones Cracked” and the stomp of “Before You Go.”

||| Download: “Bones Cracked” and “Before You Go”

||| Live: The Dead Ships celebrate their album release with a show Tuesday at the Echo, supported by the Ross Sea Party, Hello Echo and the Muddy Reds.

Photo by James Farrell