{"id":557,"date":"2008-07-16T21:28:21","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T21:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skullcull.wordpress.com\/?p=557"},"modified":"2025-06-23T03:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T03:13:08","slug":"rebellious-jukebox-death-in-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/?p=557","title":{"rendered":"Rebellious Jukebox: Death In Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I discovered Death In Vegas through a track on a compilation CD that came with Vox magazine a fair while ago now and they are definitely a regular part of my sonic diet. They hit me as a good idea to put on when I am in that kind of mood that calls for Chemical Brothers or maybe Scott 4. Spiritually I think they plough a similar furrow. There is also a kinship with Primal Scream whose singer Bobby Gillespie appeared on The Contino Sessions.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both Dead Elvis<\/em> and Contino Sessions <\/em>are the kind of albums that I find I can listen to on an almost constant loop — not that I do of course. They have enough ideas and a wide enough sonic palate that\u00a0 they remain\u00a0 a novel and interesting experience through repeated listens and both of them are distinct enough that they don’t disappear into that soupy morass that can spring up around a supposed scene. Not that they were ever strictly part of a scene but they were occasionally\u00a0 loosely corralled with the other big beat bands who straddled the divide between dance and rock music. Contino Sessions <\/em>was the last album where this truly worked for them — Scorpio Rising<\/em> sounding like a compilation album with the tracks where Paul Weller and one of the Gallagher brothers guested being so stodgy it was like swallowing a bucket of puke mixed with sawdust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Satan\\’s Circus<\/em> was a step away from the so-called trademarks of their sound but it was a recapturing of their spirit. It was markedly more electronic than its predecessors and much fresher in ideas and sound than Scorpio Rising<\/em>. The first two albums remain the embodiment of what I think most people would agree on as the essence of Death In Vegas, Satan’s Circus <\/em>representing a welcome step onwards and The Contino Sessions<\/em> being the high watermark thus far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s head music, it’s soul music — it’s more than a flash in the pan. Check it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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