Kenneth Griffin on vocals and New Yorker John Rauchenberger on piano together with three backing musicians offer a taste of what to expect from the band's forthcoming debut album Madness Is The Mercy.
The other instruments are bass, viola and flugel horn so these are no hard rockers. Instead, the lonesome crooning prompts the dubious label of "psyche lounge".
The faceless nude woman on the cover presumably represents the subject of the song, an enigmatic, and now absent, object of desire - "She was a question not an answer".
Her departure forces the singer to take a long hard look at himself and to conclude resignedly "I could not answer that question".
August Wells play a kind of inscrutable soul music in which the theatrical tone makes it hard to gauge if the emotions are faked or genuine. It works fine for one track but a whole album's worth would be hard going so hopefully they have more strings to their bow.