Undergrowth running
A chorus of frogs
A parakeet's picnic
All writhing in a tub
Panoramic banana
A passion fruit samba
Pale skin is itching- a tropical fever
-"Gecko", The Creatures
The Creatures were a side project of Siouxsie Sioux and Budgie from Siouxsie and the Banshees. I love all of their work, but this first record of theirs I crazy love. It is from 1983 and it's called Feast... I mean, look at the cover. If there is such a genre as Tropical Gothic, this is it. Heavy drums, Polynesian chants, even some spoken word and smashed glass. It doesn't really make any "sense", but it sounds soooo damn good. There is nothing like a Side Project that no one thinks will be taken too seriously, especially the first album. The artists involved just sound so...free. (The perfect companion piece to this would be 1983's Robert Smith and Steve Severin acid-and-B-Movie-fueled side project, The Glove.) Come to find out they recorded this in Hawaii. Highly recommended if you have a soft spot for early goth music as well as Exotica (a la Martin Denny). You won't be able to stop playing it.
I totally agree!! Lovvveeee that album and them! Thanks for Posting Miss S!
Posted by: Toni Roxanne Oswald | 02/25/2011 at 10:59 AM
Rad, yet another thing you have expanded my mind to... love
Posted by: *winter | 02/25/2011 at 05:51 PM
I've got Boomerang on cassette!
Posted by: Tyler James Cook | 02/26/2011 at 05:47 PM
Used to love The Glove!
Posted by: daphne | 03/06/2011 at 03:16 PM
Awesomeness! This is one of those albums that I purchased on vynil even after the invent of CDs because the cover art was so fantastic. What has happened to cover art?!
Posted by: temple | 03/08/2011 at 11:48 AM