September 5, 2014

The Ukiah Drag’s In The Reaper’s Quarters Coming September 11th

THE UKIAH DRAG PLAY ST. VITUS NEXT THURSDAY, SEPT 11TH
RECORD RELEASE SHOW W/ CRAZY SPIRIT AND UNIFORM

The Ukiah Drag’s record release show at St. Vitus next Thursday, September 11th with Crazy Spirit, Uniform, Survival and Nick Klein.

‘In The Reaper’s Quarters’ was recorded in a secularized Lutheran temple off the banks of the Hudson River in upstate New York and serves as a fine projection of basement rumination as The Drag chew up tired rock and post punk – moving it onto new spiritual drippings. Recommended if you like The Fall, Jody Reynolds, Link Wray, The Stooges, The Damned or anything of the sort and drops next week on Wharf Cat Records.

The Ukiah Drag are Floridians in New England exile – personnel stem from the Tampa scene – recording and sharing bands with members of Merchandise like Cult Ritual and have previously run with the Ascetic House/Destruction Unit pack, with whom they put out their debut tape and toured with respectively. Most recently, The Drag released their first studio output, Dirt Trip 7″ and reissued their Jazz Mama is Cryin’ 12″ (both via Wharf Cat). Moving along – In The Reaper’s Quarters offers pulsating organs that strobe their way through flattening riffs and creep beats; occasionally joined by a sex-crazed baby grand slinking sinfully into the reaper’s pit. This is a widow-making full length that marks and culminates every player’s previous efforts to a blunt and remorseless T.

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