Haunted Head, by Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds

Haunted Head

by Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds

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sha Reminds me of the amazing gig I saw you play in Edinburgh in 2017. One of the very best I've ever been to. Favorite track: Haunted Head.

fishanthrope GREAT SOLID ROCKING KICK-ASS ALBUM -- demeaned by crappy bitmapped lo-res cover art. Bandcamp REALLY needs to set some quality standards for cover images. I just bought 17 albums and every single cover was a different resolution. Get it together!

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1.	Lurch 03:05	buy track
2.	Su Su 04:14	buy track
3.	Killer Diller 03:16	buy track
4.	I Don't Like 03:02	buy track
5.	The Rad Lord’s Return 02:02	buy track
6.	Haunted Head 03:49	buy track
7.	Lady Hawke Blues 04:01	buy track
8.	Let's Go! 01:49	buy track
9.	Loud and Proud 02:20	buy track
10.	222 02:21	buy track
11.	Dance Me Swamply 02:48	buy track
12.	Lamont's Requiem 07:05	buy track

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Waking from a nap in the swamps of outer space, Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds ride a geisterbahn into the hypnagogic, a place between sleep and consciousness also known as the “Haunted Head.”

Haunted Head is the third LP the quartet has oozed out for In The Red. Legendary guitar stylist Kid Congo Powers (The Gun Club, The Cramps, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds) and longtime cohorts bassist Kiki Solis (Knife in the Water), drummer Ron Miller (Up The Academy) and guitarist Jesse Roberts (Sandrider, The Ruby Doe) take matters into their own mitts by having Roberts engineer and Miller mix the record at the now well-known Harveyville Project High School in Kansas.

With The Pink Monkey Birds’ cocktail of fuzz guitars, New Orleans drum beats, soulful strut bass lines and sonic ambrosia at its most potent, Haunted Head offers the purest distillation of the group’s powers. The trip of your dreams includes the “cheap and tawdry” in a tribute to dearly departed actress Susan Tyrell (“Su Su”), the morphing of Jerry Lee Lewis with Phyllis Diller (“Killer Diller”) and the plain ol’ insanity of romantic love (“Dance Me Swamply”). The band also tells you how they like “the mondos and the cholos and the weirdos and he freaks” on the rollicking “Let’s Go!” and how they don’t like “neocons in square back suits” and “throwing up in a dirty phone booth “ on the punky proclamation “I Don’t Like.” I mean, who does?

On the album’s title ballad, Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds ask the listener “What’s inside your Haunted Head? Are you alive or are you dead? Are you kissing and a huggin’? Are you pushin’ and a shoving?” Perhaps only in dreams could you answer such a question.

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released May 28, 2013

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Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds Tucson, Arizona

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Apr 19

Theatre Royal

Castlemaine, VIC
Apr 20

Lion Art Factory

Adelaide, SA
Apr 21

Rosemount Hotel

Perth, WA
Apr 24

Republic Bar & Café

Hobart, TAS
Apr 25

Oxford Art Factory

Sydney, NSW
Apr 27

The Zoo

Fortitude Valley, QLD
Sep 11

Le 106

Rouen, France
Sep 23

Quasimodo

Berlin, Germany
Oct 22

Kilowatt

San Francisco, CA
Oct 24

Lodge Room

Los Angeles (LA), CA
Oct 26

Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery

Santa Fe, NM
Nov 2

Mississippi Studios

Portland, OR

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