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R.I.P.
Artist:
The Murder City Devils
Format: CD
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Wish
Formats and Editions
1. Bear Away
2. I Drink the Wine
3. One Vision of May
4. Midnight Service at the Mtter Museum
5. I Want a Lot Now
6. Rum to Whiskey
7. Dancin' Shoes
8. Waltz
9. Dear Hearts
10. That's What You Get
11. Idle Hands
12. Boom Swagger
13. Dance Hall Music
14. Cradle to the Grave
15. Murder City Riot
16. Press Gang
17. Broken Glass
18. 18 Wheels
19. Grace That Saves
Reviews:
Posthumous albums can be tricky. It's one thing to issue an archival Beatlesset, but for an indie band with a limited shelf life, isn't a bit presumptuousto foist upon the public a theoretically dubious-in-appeal artifact? At thesame time, though, going out with a bang, as the Devils did, gives documentationa certain logic and urgency. This comes from the last show of their 2001 Thelematour—fittingly, on Halloween—and knowing they were splitting, they blew outall the candles. Like the Damned covering the Nuggets songbook and churningforth on a sea of tribal pounding, distorto-fuzz guitar and gothadelic organ,the Devils bent the horror-garage subgenre to their will, with scarred-larynxvocalist Spencer Moody alternately gurgling, gasping and baying at the fullmoon. And as the band's debut release, in '97, appeared on the Die Young StayPretty label, it sounds like a prophecy fulfilled.
