"Jack the Ripper" is a mercilessly bootlegged Cleveland classic from 1978 with a serrated punk edge and vocals that recall Mick Blood of Aussie savages the Lime Spiders
Slade's Christmas smash hit 'Merry Xmas Everybody' can be heard on 'Crackers' for the first time in this re-compilation of the seminal Christmas album
1989 marks also Kölsch's intensified deployment of real-life orchestral sounds and the continuation of his extremely fruitful collaboration with Gregor Schwellenbach
having sold over 11 million albums in the United States
The album serves as a follow-up to their third studio album
DARK PAST | VINYL RECORD (LP) 08/21/2026 "Jack the Ripper" is aVinyl LP pressing. 2011 album from Seattle's fun loving quintet. It is a youthful, swaggering mix of synth happy pop, rock, funk, disco, and New Wave that has been described as "punk rock ABBA disco Osmonds with chainsaws." It challenges the notion that irresistible pop can only be peddled by solo artists propped up by big name songwriters and major labels. It's game on for these pop, indie minded twenty some things this album mixed by Eliot James