Wall of Voodoo: Dark Continent LP 1981 original UK 1st press. Check the exclusive video of the LP for sale! Great Los Angeles new wave. Check video + vinyl audio of all songs!

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Wall of Voodoo was an American new wave group from Los Angeles best known for the 1983 hit “Mexican Radio”. The band had a sound that was a fusion of synthesizer-based New Wave music with the spaghetti western soundtrack style of Ennio Morricone.

Wall Of Voodoo – Dark Continent
Label: I.R.S. Records
Catalog#: SP 70022
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: England
Released: 1981
Genre: Rock, New Wave

Dark Continent is the first full length album by Los Angeles new wave band Wall of Voodoo, released in 1981 on IRS Records. It reached #177 on the US album charts.
The song “Call Box (1-2-3)” spawned a music video and the band also performed “Back in Flesh”.

Tracklist
A1 Red Light 3:05
A2 Two Minutes Till Lunch 2:15
A3 Animal Day 3:14
A4 Full Of Tension 2:12
A5 Me And My Dad 3:23
A6 Back In Flesh 3:40
B1 Tse Tse Fly 3:59
B2 Call Box 2:32
B3 This Way Out 2:59
B4 Good Times 2:28
B5 Crack The Bell 3:31

Bass, Keyboards – Bruce Moreland
Drums, Percussion – Joe Nanini
Guitar – Marc Moreland
Harmonica, Keyboards, Vocals – Stan Ridgway
Keyboards – Chas T. Gray

5.0 out of 5 stars Lost classic,
Few people will have heard of Wall of Voodoo and most those who have will because of the cult single “Mexican Radio” or lead singer Stan Ridgeways hit single “Camouflage”. This album is without doubt a total classic, sounding like little else: Dark in atmosphere, it is a sinister blend of early electronica, spaghetti western soundtrack, Americana, country and experimental swamp-rock (should such a thing exist – it does – WOV invented it). Characterised by Stan Ridgeways distinctive semi-spoken vocal style, drum machines, harmonica and dark narrative lyrics, it speaks of the dark, bizarre side of America. “Red Light” and “Full of tension” are at the same time sinister yet catchy. “Two Minutes til Lunch” is an odd little tale ending in the percussive “..don’t-touch-that-you’ll-blow-this-place-up!” (Need I say more?) This album is like little else. It could be argued that it is “of the era” with the raw drum machine sound and keyboards, but this is far deeper an darker that most early eighties pop. The follow up “Call of the West” was a bigger success and contained the ubiquitous “Mexican Radio” but “Dark Continent” has the edge for musical originality and spooky undertones. If you are a listener who likes to try something different, I challenge you to try this – You are unlikely to be disappointed.

 

In some ways, Dark Continent is Wall of Voodoos greatest album. Although it lacks the “Mexican Radio” of its follow-up, there is no filler and the arrangements and concepts are brilliantly executed. Proffering an utterly unique blend of drum machine beats, Marc Morelands Western-influenced guitar leads, and Stan Ridgway’s distinctive vocals and lyrics, Dark Continent has been compared to the music of Devo, but is not quite like anything — or anyone — else. The songs deal with natural and industrial perils, tense relationships, and reflect a cranky, working-class perspective that offers an interesting contrast to the new wave elements of prominent synthesizer and hyperactive rhythm box beats. If originality and artistic vision are any measure of a rock albums worth, Dark Continent delivers on both counts.

5.0 out of 5 stars And STILL nothing else sounds like this.
This and Call of the West are unique sounding and, God forbid, actually interesting.
Made today, the production would have been punchier but who cares.
You either get it or you don’t….beautiful.

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