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Sunday, March 23, 2025

Demented Are Go

"Black Valium"  b/w "Spoonful"   single

(Bad Billy)



Sinister "Black Valium" unfurls in slow-motion. The darkness is oppressive. Wah-wah is omnipresent, and each beat plunges into earth. Sparky of the towering quiff and his grotesquely greasepainted mates lurch in teasing psycho-method, only to suddenly tear into hastened dive formation. 

DAG's reading of Howlin' Wolf's "Spoonful" is also the stuff of dark dreams. The Blues opus is recast as a stalking claw-wielder. Its pace is accelerated a bit from "Black Valium," but identical menace is projected. 

It seems likely no one culpable savors sunshine.

Videos: "Black Valium"   "Spoonful" (live, 2022)   interview


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