CD: LTMCD 2327
RELEASED: 2000
LABEL: LTM

01. Not What I Expected
02. Deaf
03. Come On
04. Drug User - Drug Pusher
05. October 31st
06. Egypt
07. A Sense of Reason
08. Eastern Bloc
09. Concorde Square
10. The Presence
11. Headhunters
12. Frozen Blood
13. Turnbuckle
14. The Gift of Danger
15. Hollow Points
16. The Grind
17. Cult

An archive collection, Frozen Blood couples both sides of the ultra-rare 10-inch single released on Factory Records in 1980 (Fac 32), namely Deaf and Not What I Expected, and eight other studio cuts which have long held Grail-like status for band aficionados. Never before released, the band's acclaimed radio sessions for John Peel (broadcast on Radio 1 in January, 1981) and Mark Radcliffe's Transmission programme (broadcast on Piccadilly Radio in July, 1980) include truly superb cuts such as Come On, Drug User - Drug Pusher and A Sense of Reason, none of which made it onto record in any other form. The rolling Drug User - Drug Pusher might even be their best ever song. This 72-minute CD also features a generous number of live tracks recorded at various locations in 1982, none ever studio recorded. Among the best of these is the deranged Frozen Blood, an improvised Grind and the driving Gift of Danger, all of which demonstrate that CRISPY AMBULANCE remained an adventurous, bravely experimental band right through to their dissolution in October, 1982, yet one still able to write classic left-field rock songs. In toto, the CD offers further bullet-proof evidence that CRISPY AMBULANCE were a band like no other and a truly unique creative force, too long undervalued. Frozen Blood contains full recording and sleeve notes, and, with seventeen previously unreleased tracks (all digitally remastered), is an ideal companion disc to the existing Crispies' catalogue. Followers of Joy Division, early Cure, Echo and the Bunnymen and other darker bands with existencialists lyrics: this is a CD that you might be looking for.

Influences / Similar Artists:
Joy Division, The Cure, Section 25, Department-S, The Names, Mecano