In April, iconic punk band The Damned will release their new album, Evil Spirits, which was produced by legendary producer Tony Visconti.
“We deliberately recorded the album retro style,” guitarist Captain Sensible said in a press release. “The
same way our debut album was made, basically. There’s something
wonderful about the seventies sounds; glam, rock and punk records, they
all sound so great and Tony specializes in beautifully crafted old
school production. He had us all playing live, bashing it out in the
same room with a focus on getting the initial band version of each song
as close as possible to the finished thing."
“This
album is filled with a lot of influences from our earlier, pre-’70s
tastes – the ’60s stuff. ‘Standing…’ is really linked into Joe Meek,
‘Telstar’, and that kind of stuff,” continues Vanian. At first,
I’d said in an interview before we started writing this stuff that the
album would be psychedelic, and maybe a trip through the historical side
of The Damned, as in what we like. It didn’t happen in the way I
thought it would, but it still does the same thing. It still has all
that in there, but it’s not as obvious as it could’ve been, which is
good. It’s not like pastiches of songs you remember, it’s more a case
of, what was great about something you loved as a kid has somehow
influenced a guitar sound, or the way the drums are. You might not even
know it if you’re one of our younger fans, but if you’re a little older,
you’ll hear it, which is kinda cool," singer Dave Vanian said in the release.
Take a look at the cover, above, and the tracklisting, below:
1. Standing On The Edge Of Tomorrow
2. Devil In Disguise
3. We’re So Nice
4. Look Left
5. Evil Spirits
6. Shadow Evocation
7. Sonar Deceit
8. Procrastination
9. Daily Liar
10. I Don’t Care