Frozen Blood cover

Frozen Blood

Recorded
1980-1982
Released

Crispy Ambulance’s slightly tangled history with Factory can be partially summed up in noting they only released one thing on the label proper: the two track Unsightly and Serene single in 1981, with “Deaf” being the better song in its upfront, slightly weird energy. Frozen Blood compiles that effort with a variety of contemporaneous additions: a slew of radio session cuts from 1980 and 1981 plus some live tracks from 1982. If the various songs don’t always quite reach The Plateau Phase’s majesty, they showed the band’s driving post-punk approach well.

Ned Raggett

Suggestions
Double Hipness cover

Double Hipness

The Associates
The  Wants cover

The Wants

The Phantom Band
Porcupine cover

Porcupine

Echo & the Bunnymen
The Cure cover

The Cure

The Cure
The Bends cover

The Bends

Radiohead
Against Nature cover

Against Nature

Marc Almond, Jeremy Reed, Othon Mataragas
Crawdaddy cover

Crawdaddy

The Darling Buds