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Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - The Night Creeper - Rise Above Records |
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Written by Jay Creepy
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Saturday, 11 February 2017 |
Music review of the Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats album The Night Creeper on Severed Cinema

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Band:
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats
Album: The Night Creeper
Members: Kevin Starrs (vocals, Lead Guitars, Bass,
Keyboards, Organ) Yotam Rubinger (Guitars) Itamar
Rubinger (Drums)
Year: 2015
Country: UK
Recorded: Toe Rag Studios, London & The Overlook,
Elstree
Produced by: Kevin Starrs
Cover Art: Jay Shaw/ Kevin Starrs
Mastering: Noel Summerville
Runtime: 51.15
Label:
Rise Above Records
Official Website:
facebook.com/UncleAcid
Track Listing:
1. Waiting for Blood
2. Murder Nights
3. Downtown
4. Pusher Man
5. Yellow Moon
6. Melody Lane
7. The Night Creeper
8. Inside
9. Slow Death
10. Black Motorcade |
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Firstly, let me just say, if you haven't
heard
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats
before, this album,
The Night Creeper
will officially floor you. You'll gasp for
breath as the fuzzy guitar chords hit you like a galloping black
stallion. Track 1, Waiting for Blood sounds like someone
has handed you a long forgotten or never discovered heavy rock
LP from the late '60s or the early '70s and turned it up full
volume before you've had a chance to find out what the fuck is
going on!!! The vocals are a harmony mutation of
Ozzy
(incidentally the band supported
Black Sabbath in 2013)
and
Mercury Rev! That damn good!!!! If you like
stoner rock, doom metal, '70s rock, horror vibes or simply a
sludging good hurling noise,
Uncle Acid's
The Night Creeper is the one!!!!
There's something to be said about a band
who, like stoner band,
Sleep, on their album,
Dopesmoker, have created a certain sound which is hard to
capture unless you use certain instruments and have a certain
mind set.
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats had dropped a
handful of albums prior (Mind Control is recommended
because it's a brilliant concept tale of a cult leader) but none
so grinding as
The Night Creeper. The album sleeve is so
British (the band are from Cambridge, UK) with it's morose
traditional 'Bobby on the Beat' in black and red, but then the
inner pages read visually like a Dead Kennedy's booklet.
Snippets and photographs depicting X Rated shows, 3D Glasses,
Devil Horns, Benny Hill... it's so much to take in one go!!!
Lyrically,
The Night Creeper is a
stroll through Soho or 42nd Street in the good old
days. The opening words grab you: “There's a man who's just
been waiting here all night long, As he watches you he's smiling
there all alone, He needs something better but he knows you're
on your own!” It's sheer menace, it's a slow burning
emotional ride. By the time you're on track 4, Pusher Man,
with it's gorgeous vocals and backing melodic harmonies, the
album totally has you in its world. Is it the “aaaahhhhs” which
slur out of the music at certain points? Is it the heavy duty
riffs and slamming drum patterns which almost swallow up the
fragile lead voice as lyrics such as “I'm a pusher man, I'll
give her what I can... she will never learn, but that's
alright...” which paint a traumatic story and this story
formulates throughout. The Night Creeper has a long coat,
a baggy wide tie, a filthy shirt and a trilby hat. The album
dresses this way as the darkness falls and it walks the streets
and alleys looking for... someone... to... look at...
Yellow Moon kind of sits in the dead
centre and is an interlude. A beautiful quietly laden
instrumental and then Melody Lane arrives, and it's back
to the black sludge and filth. “I staggered on my way home
past leering eyes and taunting voices, as blood drips from my
flesh wound I knew my thoughts would scream in terror...”
Kevin Starrs is the man, and on this album he
performs vocals, lead guitars, bass, and organs. He simply knows
how to fuse together a mind fuck of an LP. Behind this wall of
noise is Yotam and Itamar Rubinger -- backing guitars and drums
respectively. If there's a downside, the title track goes a more
upbeat direction in its sound (not in its lyrics) which sounds
very out of place and kind of undoes the remains of the album
(though Inside, with its
White Stripes funky sound
tries very hard). However, the last two tracks slow down and
kind of lets you pause and take a steady breath. Black
Motorcade is so stripped bare it's like an acoustic
unplugged session. It all ends with a chilly rain falling on a
pavement somewhere in the night...
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats
are said to be an absolutely amazing spectacle live and are
promising new material very soon. In the meanwhile, check out
this obscenely retro video for Melody Lane...
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