DAMNED - Strawberries LP twisted Kim Shattuck writes another batch

Kim Shattuck writes another batch of pop melodies that gracefully surf on the waves of her loud guitar and screams her brains out some more about dirtbag guys

mixing in the odd viola

Ariel’s driving force was a desire to get the bands he believed in the recognition he felt they deserved

evoking emotional memory over a gray template of realism

the Cosmic Psychos have dug up some old masters

DAMNED - Strawberries LP twisted Kim Shattuck writes another batchFinding their feet again after yet another career misstep, the Damned emerged with STRAWBERRIES, their fifth studio album in as many years. With their line up more or less stable at this point, it features Dave Vanian's more assured vocals and the more pop by the minute keyboards and guitars of Captain Sensible. STRAWBERRIES evokes the best of the Stranglers with a touch of XTC thrown in. Well produced by the band themselves, aurally it's a great