Klaus Kinski – Skellington Horse – Ankst – ANKST128 - ***

Citing their influences as Bauhaus, Satanism and Herzog, Klaus Kinski explode out of Llanfairfechan playing moronically furious music that's also deceptively intelligent. “Ecce Homo”, a screaming, serrated song about indecent exposure that ends unpleasantly, takes its Latin title all too literally. Yes, Klaus Kinski might suggest any number of British imitators of the Birthday Party's bone-shattering punk-blues from three decades back, but The Inca Babies and Turkey Bones And The Wild Dogs are long gone, whereas these North Welsh woodsmen have their hands upon the plough right now, and they're not looking back. Let the dead bury their own dead!

(6/3/11)