Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Blood Lust (One of the best rock albums this year)

no need to be modest.

What was the answer on the T shirts? I've already seen some people wearing the Garage live show T shirts in London.

Well, I had asked about a specific couple of shirts: the blood lust album cover, which isn't available in my size currently, and the Lucifer Sam shirt, which has some cats and bats and things. He said he'd reprint them next weekend. I'm going to keep an eye on the site and see whether that pans out.

another song from the new album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5i54XNWwmc

oh, it's a B-side, not a song from the new album.
but this one is from the new album for sure:
(Uncle Acid doing their Stairway To Heaven?!)

https://soundcloud.com/goldstarpr/follow-the-leader

tracklist:

1. Mt. Abraxas
2. Mind Crawler
3. Poison Apple
4. Desert Ceremony
5. Evil Love
6. Death Valley Blues
7. Follow the Leader
8. Valley of the Dolls
9. Devil’s Work

spacemen 3..

The new album is really good, by the way. No real change from the first record, which is no surprise.

hey! they look like duded with long hair!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8sCzBrjJuY

lol "nicehair02"

appropriate poster

when is this out?

April 15th

Dudes with long hair who sound great! Really want to see them live.

this is coming out in a couple days? can't really find much info on it.

looks like it got switched to May 14

i haven't heard the new one yet, but "blood lust" is one of the coolest things i've ever found on ilm. so enjoyable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsLfUbvZpKM

wow this album is shaping up to be hypnotic as fuck

Sadly,It seems blood lust was better.
The cleaner sound might be the problem.

sweeeet it's on spotify now
sounding good

It doesn't quite sparkle as much as Blood Lust, admittedly. The best songs are the trippier, more Beatles-inspired tracks on the second half whereas the rockinger first side seems more concerned with doing a rather mid-end take on stoner/doom while jettisoning the catchy licks of that earlier album.

re the recent blood lust cd issue : RED CD !!?

never seen that before.

i have a couple of black cds (trojan comp and justice), but never seen a red one.

looks ace ...

...the best songs are the trippier, more Beatles-inspired tracks on the second half whereas the rockinger first side seems more concerned with doing a rather mid-end take on stoner/doom...

^ this was my take on the 1st album, tbh. loved it, but felt that the first few songs were a warm-up, that it only really hit full stride halfway through with "i'm here to kill you".

listening to mind control for the first time, and lead track "mt. abraxas" is just about killing me. love the harmonies. would hardly call it mid-end stoner doom, though it definitely skews that way during the long trudgy bit towards the end. no problem with the cleaner sound.

"mind crawler", man huge beatles fingerprints here, heavy garage psych as much as doom. catchy as fuck. this is good.

yeah, i'm really digging this. figured it'd be a little more of a move into uncharted territory like that "down to the fire" bonus joint on blood lust, but hey they're good at what they do and there are more weird excursions into psych on here.

not quite enough catchy lead riffs for me (compare Mind Crawler to 13 Candles for example).

tbf, not much compares favorably to "13 candles"

Truth.

agree that there's less emphasis on hypnotic heaviness here. and when they do try to lean back and jusdt ride a riff (as at the end of "mt. abraxas"), it doesn't seem quite as magical. vocal melody/harmony, songwriting and psychedelic textures do most of the work. it's a trade-off i can accept, though yeah, i do miss the careening intensity of blood lust's finest moments.

then again, maybe i just need to get the hang of things. i was (stupidly) dissing the first half of blood lust a couple posts back, but that's more a leftover artifact of how the album first hit me than an expression of how i feel now. i love every song, every minute.

the drums on Evil Love are killing me.

might be the best song here. at least in this early stage.

Mind Control is more stoner/doom and (musch) less dirty garage rock:
so they lost some of their unique characteristics, and didn't replace them with new, exciting ideas.

in short, it's Blood Lust again, only with a more generic metal production and kinda weaker melodies.

it's nice enough, still.

p.s. Beatles?! where?

vocals, mostly

yeah, that's otm i guess.

i thought more of The Stooges on Mind Crawler, with that Wanna Be Your Dog drums.

in short, it's Blood Lust again, only with a more generic metal production and kinda weaker melodies.

the scuzzy garage punk sound wasn't my favorite thing about blood lust. it was cool, definitely helped build the vibe, but i'm not brokenhearted to see it go. "mind crawler" and "evil love" recall that approach and rock hard enough to satisfy me. i prefer the former, but the harmonized guitars on "evil love" are particularly nice. i also dig the dark, psychedelic dreaminess things slide into over the course of side two. "valley of the dolls" and "devil's work" are early favorites.

on first blush, this doesn't quite live up to the debut's promise, but i'll willing to give it (and them) some time and the benefit of the doubt.

wanna be yr dog piana too

yeah i meant the piano sorry

"devil's work" is the definite highlight for me. "follow the leader" is the most interesting shift in tone but i kinda don't like it that much?

i take it more as an ambient drone interlude than a proper song, and on that level it's p cool. certainly prefer it to the knife's moves in that direction on their new album.

i agree with nostromo. i'm definitely missing the skuzziness of blood lust.

it's true that the cleaner sound and deemphasis of heavy-duty riffage maybe threatens to turn them into black mountain or maybe a darkside cousin to tame impala

maybe

wait if there's no heavy duty riffage, what is there?!

So far I don't hear anything as powerful as "Ritual Knife" but there's still a lot of good stuff here.

some musicians in this band! seems like this album may be a bit better thought out.

They probably practiced the songs a lot more. There's definitely noticeable mistakes on "Blood Lust," possibly due to the foggy haze of weed smoke that was likely surrounding them during recording. (ie "13 Candles" the bass switching to different parts of the song at the wrong time.) Those are some of my favorite moments on the album.

http://thequietus.com/articles/12006-uncle-acid-the-deadbeats-mind-control-review

I really want to like this band but I feel like witch did this so much better 5 years ago. but I see a couple other people beat me to that observation last year.

My little bro is really into metal and he played me this guy's record and it was fucking great.

DL, that is a great review. Can I just say you are truly an amazing writer?

Will dip my toe in the new album this weekend.

i have to wait until its released ..
but agree re dogs review ..