Ill Met By Moonlight
(Messers Vanian and Cornwell compare vampiric breath)
The Cornwell/Williams 'Nosferatu project had a difficult gestation suffereing from a number of delays to its release schedule. This is perhaps not surprising give the extent of the frenetic activity within Camp Stranglers in the second half of 1979.
When it eventually landed on the critics' turntables, the reception that it received would perhaps been enough to see old Nosferatu scampering for the reassuring comfort of his coffin. Basically, they didn't get it, seeing the album as a Cornwell vanity project, a dabble in experimental surrealism that was beyond his capability, despite the luminaries in such avant garde music that he had on board.... Ian Underwood (Zappa), Williams (Beefheart) and Mothersbaugh x 2 (Devo).
See for yourself...
New Musical Express (10th November 1979)
Record Mirror (10th November 1979)
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