Back in the Day, 1988

Mad Sin

Chills and Thrills in a Drama of Mad Sin and Mystery

(Maybe Crazy / Concrete Jungle)

In days scarcely recalled, Koefte, Stein, and Holly (as "Sinners Mad") began torching flames amid the kneecaps-and-elbows rabble that composed the WWW. Their initial recording not only foretold monstrous magnetism yet to unfold, but was itself a hatchet-mark above more $-accruing, contemporaneous waxings (Primitivism having pull all its own). Appreciate this, then, as a rudely crude invitation/warning from the neon crypt. 

Recommended: "Brainstorm," "Buddy's Riot," "Planet Paradise," "Mad Rumble," "2,3,4," "Shake the Thing," "Gonna Get Her," "Whirl Girl"

Videos: "Buddy's Riot"   "Mad Rumble"   "Whirl Girl"

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Dead Moon's Calling

(Rebellion Records)

Again populating shop bins is a 2005 People Like You release, whose echo offers something special: an opportunity to appreciate the German malcontent spectacles in early cocoon. (Sailor's Grave also once reissued this.) 

In a giddily skewed, uncanny dimension, rampageous ventures are torn off by leathery quiff-topped cacodemons with sideways senses of humor. Not knowing whether to laugh, spin crazily, or scream for all of Creation to hear, savoring victims settle upon all three.

Recommended: "Point of No Return," "Fuel for Brains," "To Walk the Night," "Not Invited," "Plastic Monsters," "Dead Moon," "Radio Psycho," "Underground," "Rebels Undisguised," "2 x Love = 2 x Pain"

Videos: "Point of No Return" (live)  "Fuel for Brains" (live)   "Not Invited"   "2 x Love = 2 x Pain"

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