Judex – Cult Of Judex (LP)
Musically, what’s collected on Cult Of Judex is mostly a gruff, hefty, pop-slanted punk – on a line between The Misfits and Australia’s Beasts Of Bourbon. Hints of Arthur Kane’s post-New York Dolls band The Corpse Grinders too. As it is with the band name, a wider net than the home state is cast when scouting for the music’s raw ingredients. Nowhere is this exemplified more than the references to Johnny Kidd & The Pirates’s “Please Don’t Touch” in “Kill White Lights” and the cover version of UK legend Jesse Hector’s “Running Wild.” When tempos slow down – “Hey Lady Gravedigger” and “Jaguar Baby” – a soul influence edges towards “Please Please Please” James Brown.
This could be of cult interest only; for garage rock heads, for Cave Stompaficionados. But it’s all mixed by veteran New York studio whizz Mark Plati, who regularly remixed and played with David Bowie in the Nineties, and has also worked with Robbie Williams and perennial French stars Alain Bashung, Françoise Hardy, Axelle Red and Catherine Ringer. Plati engineered/co-produced Bowie’s shelved but latterly issued 2000 LP Toy. This high-profile tie-in doesn’t suggest Judex have cult interest alone in mind.
Label: Hyperloop Records – HL15LP
Country: UK, Europe & US
Media Condition: Mint (M)
Sleeve Condition: Mint (M)
Limited to 250