CRAMPS, (The) RockinNReelinInAucklandNewZealandXXX Vinyl LP

Lux Interior is dead and the world is still wrong for it. But the Cramps live forever in exactly the kind of sweaty, howling document this record is, a live LP so unhinged it had to put the city in the title just so people would believe it happened.

Recorded in Auckland, New Zealand, this is psychobilly at its most feral, a band that fused rockabilly, garage rock, and horror-drenched punk into something that had no right to exist and refused to stop existing anyway. RockinNReelinInAucklandNewZealandXXX captures that perfectly, the amp-worship, the slap-back reverb, Poison Ivy's guitar tone that sounds like it was recorded in a graveyard because spiritually it was. Essential for anyone serious about where dark alternative music actually comes from, and proof that the gothic underground has always had a sense of humour about itself.

Format: 12" Vinyl LP (Reissue). Genre: Psychobilly, Garage Rock, Punk Rock. Origin: USA (New York/California).

Fans of: The Gun Club, Hasil Adkins, Reverend Horton Heat, Tiger Army, Deadbolt.