Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds / Haunted Head
Album: Haunted Head   Collection:General
Artist:Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds   Added:Jun 2013
Label:In the Red Records  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2013-06-17 Pull Date: 2013-08-19
Week Ending: Aug 11 Aug 4 Jul 28 Jul 21 Jul 14 Jul 7 Jun 30 Jun 23
Airplays: 2 2 4 3 3 1 3 2

Recent Airplay
1. Feb 07, 2022: New World Disorder (rebroadcast from Jul 7, 2013)
Su Su
4. Aug 24, 2013: Music Casserole
Haunted Head
2. Jul 14, 2016: a strange pursuit
Su Su
5. Aug 21, 2013: Brownian Motion
Lurch
3. Dec 26, 2013: Stringless Balloon Pt. 2
Lurch
6. Aug 09, 2013: Tunes
Loud And Proud, Lets Go!

Album Review
Your Imaginary Friend
Reviewed 2013-06-11
Garagey twisted surf with dark flavorings and a low fi taste. Kid Congo wrote this book, playing guitar for dark surf/garage progenitors The Cramps, proto alt-country-punk band Gun Club and then the kings all things murder ballad: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. And said book is the one that bands like White Stripes, Black Lips, Black Keys, John Spencer, Thee Oh Sees, all learned from. With a resume like that you’d expect nothing but greatness. You wont be disappointed.

1) (3:05) spooky surfy dark with cool synth
2) (4:14) slightly funky 70’s flare, cool bendy guitar
3) (3:17) bouncy garage 60’s jangle for sure
4) (3:04) simple midpaced driving low fi garage
5) (2:02) simple rock, could be early 80’s psyche revival Dream Syndicate or so
6) (3:50) slower dark twang, spooky
7) (4:01) instrumental live sound, with crowd noise, a simple bluesy improv feel
8) (1:50) 60’s organ garage fun, retro cool
9) (2:21) a bit of a swingy bluesy twang
10) (2:21) slower twangy David Lynchian smarmy greatness
11) (2:49) lovely simple mid-slow swingy couple dance, simple chords, nice
12) (7:06) slower smarmy jazzy dark, instrumental ends with 3:27 remaining, then with 3:08 remaining another “hidden”(?) track appears, a silly 60’s flavored dance craze theme song, with off key silly back up vocs

Track Listing
1. Lurch   7. Lady Hawke Blues
2. Su Su   8. Lets Go!
3. Killer Diller   9. Loud And Proud
4. I Don't Like   10. 222
5. The Rad Lord's Return   11. Dance Me Swamply
6. Haunted Head   12. Lamont's Requiem