Review:'Bela And The Lugosis' 'International Radio Star'
- Label: 'Last Night From Glasgow'
- Genre: 'Punk/New Wave'
- Release Date: '16.1.26.'
Our Rating:
International Radio Star is the debut EP by Famenonymous Glaswegian death rockers Bela & The Lugosi's who are based at Glasgow’s Green Door studios, all so notorious, to give us the members names would be enough to drive many music fans running in fear for their ears, Instead Bela And The Lugosis are John Lugosis, Gregor Lugosis, Sam Lugosis, Derek Lugosis with visuals by Willy Lugosis, they may or may not appear in the video to the single, they leave that unanswered question to the viewers own prime evil eyes, who are these mystery men.
The EP opens with International Radio Star coming on like a gothic Nectarine No 9, over an insistently undead garage goth riff, making clear just how much they believe in you, no matter how much of your blood they want to drink, guitars go off and the drummer does everything they can to fight there way out of the grave they are drumming in.
Dreams In Pale Blue of your blood dripping down your neck, while listening to the darkest most troubling 80's death rock, vocals like Richard Butlers long dead uncle, dreaming of new ways to seem less dead and entice you in.
Swimming is probably not something you should do with Vampires, especially if it's a club activity, the pool is probably filled with blood drained from 69 Eyes, filtered through original Batcave cobwebs making you vibrate across the dancefloor to your China ecstasy, a top tune.
Hartwood Hill reimagines that House On The Hill the place where they give you pills, you are in full on depressed maniac mode, trying to adjust the dosage to wring some contrition for your crimes from deep within your tortured mind, near paralysed from the weight of your actions, numbed to the core, is a way out of the malaise even possible, visions of dark nights at Klub Foot in 1985 ripped at your soul.
Embrace With Souls Collide doing the drugged-out zombie jive with you once more, tasting your blood and sucking at your soul, letting the energy of reverb and dark rock get you higher than high.
The ep closes with the acoustic version of Hartwood Hill stripped to the basic Acoustic Guitar the connection to Kevin Coyne's House On The Hill is more a stark look, into the mind of that patient all strung out, trying to find reality once more, but your are stuck in that bleak place looking for some kind of a way out.
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