Essexorcists -- Kount Kremlin
Label: Alan Records Format: CD, Album Country: UK Released: 1991 Genre: Horror Rock Style: Rock, Punk
The first and only album by Essex-based horror rockers Kount Kremlin gets a much anticipated rerelease this November after being nearly two decades out of production. If you’ve never heard of them (for shame) this is like a minimalist 45 Grave for the South of England. A three-piece lineup (lead and bass guitar, plus Keith Jism’s choked vocals and enthused zither solos, with a drum machine backing it all up like iffy plumbing in a septic tank), it all has the finesse of a cement clarinet and really shouldn’t work. But it does. I still curse the Farnborough Airshow for taking these brave meistros from this world too soon. 4/5
Track Listing
1. Thaxted 2. Ballad of Dangly Ubb 3. Plan 7 4. I Was A Clacton Frankenstein 5. Essexorcist 6. Harlola 7. Smash Up a Shop and Kill the Police 8. Fear of Flaps
(review by Magnesia Stripp)
