Discover Weekly Playlist: The Cramps
Left to Right: Kid “Congo” Powers, Lux Interior, Poison Ivy and Nick Knox.
On first glance, you’d think The Cramps were characters taken straight from a Tim Burton movie. But, the psychobilly rockers, “The Cramps” happened to be one of the most underrated American bands of the 70′s. The band spent the majority of their time playing under-the-radar gigs in hot and sweaty clubs, with the late frontman, Lux Interior (Erick Purkhiser) often seen strutting around dressed in leather trousers and leopard g-strings. Not only did the Cramps have a unique dress sense, but they also had an individual sound, influenced by psychobilly music, a genre that was and still is overlooked by the music industry. The combination of the southern bell sounds of Psychobilly and the Cramps’s pre existing festering mutant rock and punk demeanours, were a force to be reckoned with.
The Cramps had created a sound that operated on a completely different wavelength in comparison to the fabricated sounds of 70′s jazz fusion. Throughout the 30 years where the band was active, The Cramps managed to strike the balance between staying within the media’s eye and lurking just beneath the surface, acting as the popular outcasts. In homage to the goth sounds of Lux, Poison Ivy, Kid Congo and Knox, they are the second band to feature on the Discover Weekly playlist.
The link: https://open.spotify.com/user/1110871727/playlist/1hi7xWXsKuA6PeQA3rT6po
