Big Beat Vinyl & CDs

Review: David Vanian, splitting off from his role as the lead singer of the Damned, once made an effective detour known as David Vanian and the Phantom Chords. The Chords' self-titled debut from 1995, reissued here, is a fusion of rockabilly and gothic rock - often classified as gothabilly. The band perform a mixture of covers and original material, including 'Voodoo Doll', 'The House Is Haunted' and 'Jezebel', laying down the massive, twangy, incipient sound of gothabilly with Vanian himself sounding as if to be singing in a massive catacomb's chasm.

Review: ***B-STOCK: Creasing to corner of outer sleeve, product unopened & in excellent condition***


David Vanian, splitting off from his role as the lead singer of the Damned, once made an effective detour known as David Vanian and the Phantom Chords. The Chords' self-titled debut from 1995, reissued here, is a fusion of rockabilly and gothic rock - often classified as gothabilly. The band perform a mixture of covers and original material, including 'Voodoo Doll', 'The House Is Haunted' and 'Jezebel', laying down the massive, twangy, incipient sound of gothabilly with Vanian himself sounding as if to be singing in a massive catacomb's chasm.

Review: This collection focuses in an era of Japanese music in which fashion, glamour and kitsch collided to create an addictive sound that morphed Westernized shapes into something kaleidoscopic and unique; the GS (or Group Sounds) phenomenon had seen Japanese artists attempting their own take on the high-energy onslaught of the Beatles and the British invasion, but elsewhere the female artists of the era were crafting a sound that tipped its hat to bossa nova, psych-pop and French ye-ye whilst maintaining a distinctly Japanese approach. Vibrant, eclectic and shot through with an insouciance and style rich even for this era, this is a compilation that sounds as exotic today as it did in the '60s.