Cabin Fever - CD LP (WRATHCD20) Wrath Records
This behemoth of an album is now available from The Scaramanga Six's label Wrath Records primarily via mail order RIGHT NOW. General release in the shops is now 26/09/05 distributed to the major retailers via shellshock. A special download release from Karmadownload.com will also feature two extra live tracks.
Track Listing:
Soul Destroyer / Smite my face / The poison pen / Pincers / We rode the storm / Unclean / A song for you / The electricity bill / Poison fang / The coward / Horrible face
Go here to listen to some bits.
This is what the new long player from The Scaramanga Six looks like.
It’s called ‘CABIN FEVER!’ and it’s an absolute monster.
The group have been recording down in a field near Salisbury in complete
isolation. The producer is none other than Cardiacs legend TIM SMITH and
he’s given it the whistles and bells treatment. Well actually, there
are no whistles and bells on the album but there is various other guest
instruments including timpanis played by drunmmer Stuffy’s Mum (no
joke) as well as some rather neat Musical Saw interludes by Rhodri from
The Free French.
Cabin Fever is The Scaramanga Six’s third studio album and follows
on from 2003’s ‘Strike! Up The Band’ which notched up an
amazing 25 sales in the first month of it’s release - earning the
band their first ‘brown disc’. The album sees the band go off
on even more of a heavy direction with a full on swaggering sound, thought
there are still numerous moments of pure intense pop like the anthemic
song about being too old to rock ‘We Rode The Storm’ or the
nautically themed and emotionally challenged ‘Soul Destroyer’.
It also features recent single ‘The Poison Pen’ and has an MPEG
video of the very same song which is a hideously evil affair directed
by Paul.
Scratchy and uncompromising, The Scaramanga Six continue to ride the storm
and will be touring in April with label mates Les Flames! where the album
will be available to buy.
The CD also comes with a unique 3-D sticker design giving it that extra gore factor with several layers of blood.
PLAUDITS, PUNDITS AND PLAYLISTS
'Cabin Fever' has finally been unleashed onto the ears of the critics
in readiness for it's 'proper' release on the 26th. Here's some ace new
bits of crawly-bumlick press so far:
'This should be the record that finally makes the rest of the country
sit up and take notice....makes Justin Hawkins sound like Laa Laa from
the Teletubbies....On the whole, Cabin Fever is audacious in the extreme
but without being overwrought and pretentious, making it a more enjoyable
experience with every listen.' - Drowned In Sound
'rarely does such disregard for the basic principles of songwriting provide
such exhilerating results' - Rock Sound
'Scaramanga Six are probably guilty of being far too original for their
own good (if only they'd compromise a little bit and play the game like
all the other well behaved rule obeying bands then they'd be all over
XFM and nominated for a Mercury approval prize). Original demons on their
back, walls closing in but they're not the types to let guilt get in the
way, they're persistent, consistent, persistently consistently good.'
- The Organ
'The third album by The Scaramanga Six is going to be one of the best
new rock albums you hear this year. Packed full of passion, noisy guitars,
drama and good, old-fashioned originality. Cabin Fever is simply one of
this year's must have albums. Not "must have" albums like those
ones in the HMV sale, I mean MUST HAVE. Buy it. - Indigo Flow
'This is one of those albums where your favourites are destined to change
over repeated listens.' - CD Times
'Think half Nick Cave fronting QOTSA with the GLC on lyrical duties and
half brit-pop hitting puberty. Does that make sense? No? Its not meant
to. Let the Kaiser Chiefs side of Leeds keep the sense, the Scaramanga
side has the tunes. Metaphorical buckets of them.' - Rock City
'Horribly catchy and deceptively clever this lot have everything you want
to power pop. The Leeds boys done rather good really.' - Blog Critics