Darkadelic

Reviews

D. Parkin

Darkadelic is a psychedelic gothic punk masterpiece! The cover artwork is also excellent and, if you have the clear vinyl version with the cleverly designed slip mat, you can stare at the vinyl as it spins and find yourself drawn into a psychedelic’60s time tunnel as the music swirls around you! Bass, guitar and drums are all on point, melding well with the keyboards,and the vocals are fine enough although less soaring than in former years. The guitars are much more to the front than on their last offering, Evil Spirits, and Sensible excels throughout.

MICHAEL

Dave Vanian’s sublime vocals sound better than ever, making me think he made a deal with some red, pointy eared bloke with a forked tail some time ago to keep sounding this good…The band as a whole sound completely at one, which is no mean feat as this album as actually recorded back in 2021, as we were limping out of lockdown, and with a new drummer. As others have commented there are many nods to sixties' influences here, and if they were a younger upcoming band then the lp would probably be receiving far more attention for it's musicianship and quality in the music media and in radio play. The Damned recently played the whole of this album (bar the final track) live on their recent tour - before it was released. Yery pleased with with replacement.