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By Evan ~ July 17th, 2009. Filed under: collector scum.
U.S. Christmas, also known as USX for short, hail from the mountains of North Carolina. Their sound is huge, enveloping, painkiller-slow jams. Totally psychedelic and far-out, this is one of the first bands in a few years I have been excited about hearing new material from. Ian introduced me to their vinyl EP a while back, and I’ve been praying for more releases at night before bed ever since. I say, “Dear God, bring me more spaced-out demonic music, please. Bring me heavily-effected druggy fuzz rock, and also tons of gash, and money, and pills.” Then I fall asleep crying because I have to keep making the same requests night after night.
Dude sings “Let’s drink bottles of gasoline” over and over during the song, “Silent Tongue.” Need I say more?
From Crucial Blast:
“For their first real album, the band has taken material from their previous discs and reworked/rearranged/re-recorded them into Salt The Wound, with a sound that combines classic 70’s psych rock, Caustic Resin, Neurosis-like dirge, gooey sludge metal, blues and early country music, Hawkwind style space-rock explorations, and the expansive fire rock of late ’70s Neil Young & Crazy Horse. Quite a heady mix, but Salt The Wound ties these influences and stylings together with a righteously loose energy as the band works out extended riff feasts littered with spacey theremin strains and some of the coolest molten synthesizer woosh this side of Comets On Fire, resulting in 10 jams of awesome life affirming heaviness. At just over an hour long, the band keeps it dynamic and ever changing as they move from the moving, distortion-caked country/space rock sludge of “Lazarus” to “Death By Horses” awesome motorik rush, the doomed cosmic boogie of “Devil’s Flower” and “Thin The Herd” instrumental Southern rock. Trippy, rocking, crushing, this is a stellar first album from U.S. Christmas, presented in a gatefold sleeve with great artwork by Victor Pushkin. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.”
U.S. Christmas
Salt The Wound
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Tracklist:
01. Lazarus
02. Death By Horses
03. New War
04. Devil’s Flower
05. Thin The Heard
06. Norpo
07. Black Snake
08. Queen Of The World
09. Silent Tongue
10. Black Lung
July 17th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
Holy wow. And I was still recovering from the Monks.
Oh, and I’m stealing “painkiller-slow.”
July 17th, 2009 at 11:36 pm
That artwork for this album is awesome!
July 20th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
It does look cool! And music is interesting, too!
July 20th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Thank you for sharing this! I heard one of the tracks from “Eat the Low Dogs” and I’ve been looking forward to hearing more.
December 22nd, 2009 at 8:19 am
I recently watched “South of Heaven, West of Hell”, a strange and bloody Western that Dwight Yoakam wrote and starred in a few years ago. His sidekick in the movie is a cowboy who wears a dress and goes by the name U.S. Christmas.
January 15th, 2010 at 10:40 am
The character’s name in the Yoakam film was apparently a tribute to another character called U.S. Christmas in a Sam Peckinpah film. I’ll shut up now.