Limited to 300 copies. In 2 colour Transparent Green/Mustard half and half vinyl. Included is a free CD of the album and free download.
Main CD package is a 4 panel digipack with booklet.
A heavy rock concept album featuring the dark tale of future street dweller Suzie Pellet. A feisty survivor in a ruined world.
Suzie is the brainchild of
Ian Miller, fantasy/horror artist and novelist.
Not unlike
Michael Moorcock guiding
Hawkwind,
Transmaniacon bring Miller's vision to sonic life, alongside the outstanding vocal deliveries of punk poetess and avant rocker
Lydia Lunch (a hind-sighted Suzie) and
Maya Berlin (a future 'present-day' Suzie).
Sci-fi and space rock, hard and heavy riffing guitars, overdriven Hammond Organ and synth are all in there. The twin heavyweights of
Blue Oyster Cult and
Mountain loom large, but this time with the added groove of an an organ-driven
Frumpy or
Black Mountain.
Transmaniacon have taken and expanded Miller's vision into a story in which Pellet herself, describes the dark, underworld, its characters and situations, friends and foes, all in grisly-spoken and sung diary-like, excerpts.
Lydia Lunch's world weary rasping syllables bring a frightening authenticity and drama to the older Suzie's memories and give an almost cinematic intensity to the imagery.
The young Suzie is sung by
Maya Berlin, vocalist with
Cold in Berlin. Delivering equal parts Punk, Doom and Goth, Suzie gives her the opportunity to expand her vocal (and theatrical) talents in
Grace Slick or
Julie Driscoll or even
Chelsea Wolfe directions.
Ian Miller has once again provided his macabre vision for the sleeve art. But here his style has mutated into a vivid and creepy marriage of photo montage and the inky etched characters for for which he is known.
A new vision of Suzie, perhaps a
Hogarth or
Durer painting for the 21st century.
Step into the nightmare world of Suzie Pellet.
Tracklisting:Vinyl LP:Side A:1. Inca Sunshine
2. Painted On Skin
3. The River, The Birds
4. Sexton Breen
Side B:1. Dogs Of War
2. Outrun The Pack
3. Tooled Up
4. Aerosol Death Rattle
CD:1. Inca Sunshine
2. Painted On Skin
3. The River, The Birds
4. Sexton Breen
5. Dogs Of War
6. Outrun The Pack
7. Tooled Up
8. Aerosol Death Rattlef