Death In Vegas - compilation with killer collabs

Regular visitors to this site have noticed that we do not endorse compilations lightly and often but when there is something worth a place in one’s collection… Thus, highlights of the Death in Vegas’ work for the major label have been assembled here and unfairly titled ‘Milk It’. [Humorous or ironic, whoever thought it should have tried harder.]

On the DiV’s last album, ‘Satan’s Circus’, Richard Fearless and Tim Holmes struck out on an anti-commercial tactic that left many of their fans stranded. So, this is an anthology to redress the balance and it certainly sounds like being a soundtrack to quite a few people‘s lives.

Material is sourced from the three albums they recorded between 1997 and 2002 and it demonstrates that although they were sonic-futurists - fusing dance and rock, dragging Gothic eletronica and screeching guitars and ghoulish-sounds capes into their sonic melting pot - they were also well versed in the 1960s heritage.

That may be the reason they sought vocal collaborators who were steeped in the period, literally or musically. Iggy Pop’s Top 10 hit ‘Aisha’ could be our favourite but Paul Weller and then Liam Gallagher show they are not slouches we know them as…

There is only one remix, by Polyphonic Spree, of the ‘Scorpio Rising’ [Liam’s track] that may be on par with the original. Death In Vegas were masters of their direction…

‘Milk It’ is quite bloody intoxicating. A document of its timeframe, deftly.

9/10