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The Cramps: Psychedelic Jungle (IRS)

David Hepworth, Smash Hits, 14 May 1981

FROM THE DEPTHS of the primeval rain forest they came, bathed in hideous blue light, muttering of voodoo and rotting bones and things that go ga-ga in the night. The songs are stronger here than on their debut album, but the atmosphere is no less demented, the steady, pulsing rockabilly no less determined and dance-worthy. Who else could dream up a song called 'Goo Goo Muck'? Who else but the Cramps, truly a band in a swamp of their own.

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