Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds have announced new album “That Delicious Vice” which will be out April 19th via In the Red. It’s their first album in eight years, and the first with a new trio line-up of the band which now features multi-instrumentalist Mark Cisneros (ex-The Make Up) alongside long time drummer Ron Miller.
Kid Congo, effortlessly cool guitar goon for The Bad Seeds, The Gun Club and The Cramps returns with his Pink Monkey Birds in tow. Combining pulpy garage pop, slide-guitar country and latin rhythms, “That Delicious Vice” is a riot from start to finish and also notably features a melding of the minds between Kid Congo and Alice Bag, something latently desired by any LA punk fanatic. Released by In The Red, “That Delicious Vice“, will prove impossible to put down, and possibly quite tasty.
“Because Mark is playing guitar, sometimes we have songs with two guitars,” says Kid, who has over the years spent time in The Gun Club, The Bad Seeds and The Cramps. “And then sometimes, he plays bass on a bass six [i.e. — the electric bass version of the mariachi instrument, the bajo sexto]. So, that is a new development. We lost a member and decided to try to do it as a three piece — more space, you know?”
The first single from the album is “Wicked World,” a duet with fellow L.A. punk legend Alice Bag. “Yeah, we were around that ground zero, that tight circle of friends,” says Kid, “But there was a lot of cliquiness going on, even though the scene was so small. Everyone knew each other, but I was more with The Screamers and she was more with The Bags and the punk thing. You know, I was more arty farty!”
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