Nikki Sudden's collaboration with former Birthday Party guitarist Rowland S. Howard peaked with Kiss You Kidnapped Charabanc, the duo's 1987 first and only full length. Howard's sinister guitar flourishes and malevolent lyrical motifs lead Sudden's paisley-clad disposition into murkier waters, drudging the same sludge inhabited by the Gun Club and Nick Cave's Bad Seeds. Unhinged slide guitars, noise and primal drumming draw up demented pacts forged in the blood of Southern Gothic swamp stomp and Depression-era devotionals; tales of lovers and demons split between the vocal transmissions of the two minds behind this goth-steeped, blues-punk essential.
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