Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats to Release Wasteland Oct. 12
UK garage doom forerunners Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats will be at Desert Daze in California in October, and it’s newly announced that that appearance will coincide with the release of their fifth album, Wasteland, which follows 2015’s grime-fueled The Night Creeper (review here) in the band’s horror-soaked discography. One might recall earlier this year tour plans surfaced for early 2019 and Rise Above Records at long last reissued their fabled 2010 debut, Vol. 1 (review here), in 2017.
I’ll hope to have more to come as we get closer to October, but here’s the art and preliminaries to whet the appetite:
UNCLE ACID AND THE DEADBEATS – Wasteland
You can probably feel it already. Amid the shimmering haze of dusk. In the marrow of your bones. The darkness is getting darker. Malevolent forces are on the prowl. The wasteland is beckoning. Uncle Acid is on his way home.
A disorientating journey through Kevin Starrs (AKA Uncle Acid)’ wonkiest dreams, Wasteland glides majestically from punchy and direct psych-rock anthems like “I See Through You” and “Shockwave City” to the viscous, somnambulant ooze of the eight-minute “No Return” and the twinkly-eyed bad trip of the album’s mesmerising title track. Recorded at the legendary Sunset Sound studio in Los Angeles, Wasteland boasts the kind on irresistibly raw and exuberant sound that only the greatest bands can generate.
Yet more confirmation that Uncle Acid exist in their own musical universe, Wasteland is also a powerful cautionary tale: one rooted in the alien landscapes of Starrs’ imagination, but with a very clear connection to the deranged chaos of today’s political world. As humanity cheerfully circles the plughole, Dystopian visions and present-day horrors have become more-or-less interchangeable, making Wasteland’s ghoulish surrealism a lot more pertinent and disturbing in the process.
While most musicians seem content to chase their own (or other people’s tails), Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats remain proud and resolute individualists and Wasteland is simply their most powerful and memorable spurge of creativity to date. Masterfully echoing the magical atmospheres of heavy music’s turbulent past while sounding entirely unlike anything else available to human ears, this is what happens when the shadows come to life and suffocating darkness, Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats style, is the only show in town.
1.I See Through You
2.Shockwave City
3.No Return
4.Blood Runner
5.Stranger Tonight
6.Wasteland
7.Bedouin
8.Exodus
Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats live w/ L.A. Witch:
15.11 BE Brussels AB
16.11 NL Amsterdam Paradiso Noord
17.11 DE Hamburg Knust
19.11 SE Gothenburg Pustervik
20.11 NO Oslo Rockefeller
21.11 SE Stockholm Nalen
23.11 FI Helsinki Tavastia
25.11 DK Copenhagen Gra Hall
26.11 DE Berlin SO36
27.11 PL Warsaw Hybrydy
28.11 DE Dresden Beatpol
29.11 AT Vienna Arena
01.12 DE Munich Strom
02.12 IT Milan Legend
03.12 FR Villeurbanne Transbordeur
04.12 CH Zurich Dynamo
06.12 DE Karlsruhe Substage
07.12 DE Osnabruck Rosenhof
08.12 DE Koln Luxor
09.12 FR Paris La Maroquinerie
Uncle Acid live w/ Blood Ceremony:
16.01 Leeds Brudenell
17.01 Newcastle O2 Academy 2
18.01 Glasgow G2
19.01 Belfast Limelight 2
20.01 Dublin Academy Green Room
22.01 Manchester Gorilla
23.01 Birmingham O2 Institute 2
24.01 Cardiff The Globe
26.01 Brixton Electric
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