Evil Nine - They Live! (Album)
That's right! Evil Nine are back with their new album They Live! with more zombie references than you can poke a rotting limb at. The soon to be released record is no ordinary dance album, incorporating a melee of genres. The result is a long overdue follow up album with so much punch, it will have the undead causing ruckus in the moshpit.
Don't be surprised if They Live! does for zombies what Daft Punk did for robots. With stomping electro drums, 80s horror movie style synths, dirty punk basslines, and a wanton disregard for genre rules, the infamously subversive dance/electronic duo create an unstoppable soundtrack for the new zombie revolution.
The first single from the album is the title track They Live!, with thumping techno beats that will call out to you in the middle of the night from your local graveyard. The track pays irreverent homage to cult director John Carpenter's classic 1988 sci-fi ghoulfest They Live! with its ultra catchy vocoder chorus "They walk, they lie, they love, they live!, they wake, they fall, they cry, they live!, they fight, they fail, they die, they live!"
The album features a number of surprising collaborations, foremost is Def Jux's radical mastermind EI-P, whose brutal spitting transforms the apocalyptic slammer All The Cash. "We hooked up with him after our DJ set at Coachella last year and really got along," Pardy says. "If there was one rapper we wanted to work with, its EI-P, and he was up for something different."
David, vocalist of Kitsune buzz band Autokratz, adds melodic new wave melancholy to The Wait. "I'm not sure what David's singing about," Beaufoy admits. "I think its about getting laid after a gig and trying to slip away quietly to avoiding any awkwardness."
Usually bands that take four years to follow up their debut album have lost the plot somewhere along the line, the gravy train of drugs and egos crashing their creative nous. Not so for Evil Nine, who's long overdue return is punctuated by a stunningly self-assured set. Large helpings of hip-hop, breaks, post-punk and krautrock with a splash of B-movie soundtracks, and some inspired guest vocals. The recipe is perfect this time round!
Equally individual will be Evil Nine’s kinetic new live show: it features Pardy and Beaufoy singing and playing dueling bass guitars, synthesizers and samples onstage, along with an actual human drummer and a fittingly spooky visual phantasmagoria. “We want people to come to the shows dressed as zombies to add a Rocky Horror Picture Show element,” Pardy says. “We may even give away fake blood. We need all the help we can get - after all, we’re just two zombies versus the world!”
