Birthday Party - Junkyard

NEW VINYL LP ON 4AD 2012

180 GRAM VINYL INCL. 7" + CD.

The Party's second and final full studio album, also the final release with the five-person lineup, was perhaps its scuzzy masterpiece, its art/psych/blues/punk fusion taken to at times outrageous heights. Right from its start, nobody held back on anything, Cave's now-demonic vocals in full roar while the rest of the players revamped rhythm & blues and funk into a blood-soaked cabaret exorcism. Nearly every tune is a Party classic one way or another, from the opening slow, sexy grind of "She's Hit," Cave's freaked tale of death and destruction matched by clattering percussion and a perversely crisp guitar from Howard, to the ending title track's crawl toward a last gruesome ending.

Tracklist

She's Hit     6:06
Dead Joe     3:09
The Dim Locator     2:50
Hamlet (Pow, Pow, Pow)     5:33
Several Sins     2:56
Big-Jesus-Trash-Can     3:00
Kiss Me Black     2:48
6" Gold Blade     3:35
Kewpie Doll     3:32
Junkyard     5:49

7" singel

Release The Bats 2:32
Blast Off! 2:19