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• Psychedelic Jungle is The Cramps at their most fully realised: filthy, funny, menacing and weirdly elegant all at once. Released in March 1981 as the bands second album, it takes the primitive rockabilly-garage wreckage of the debut and makes it even more focused, with 14 tracks split between Lux Interior and Poison Ivy originals and beautifully deranged covers. Green Fuz, Goo Goo Muck, The Crusher, Primitive and Rockin Bones all sound less like revivals than exhumations, dragged out of some swampy American subconscious and electrified into something nastier.

  What makes the record so great is how committed it is to its own world. There is no polish for polishs sake, no attempt to soften the sleaze, and no distance between the joke and the threat. Poison Ivys guitar is all sting and twang, Lux sounds half-possessed, and the whole thing lurches forward with that signature bass-less Cramps throb. Even now it feels singular: not quite punk, not quite rockabilly, not quite horror camp, but one of those records that turns its limitations into a complete aesthetic.

  Reviews

  a very serious must-have Pitchfork

  prime Cramps psychobilly Trouser Press

  their creative peak Louder Sound

• Artist: The Cramps Label: Capitol Records, I.R.S. Records, UMe Format: LP Units: 1 Country: US Genre: Punk & Alternative Style: Garage Rock, Psychobilly, Punk

• A1 Green Fuz
  A2 Goo Goo Muck
  A3 Rockin’ Bones
  A4 Voodoo Idol
  A5 Primitive
  A6 Caveman
  A7 The Crusher
  B1 Don’T Eat Stuff Off The Sidewalk
  B2 Can’T Find My Mind
  B3 Jungle Hop
  B4 The Natives Are Restless
  B5 Under The Wires
  B6 Beautiful Gardens
  B7 Green Door