Cramps - Fiends Of Dope Island Cramps - Fiends Of Dope Island

The Cramps include: Lux Interior (vocals); Poison Ivy (guitar).Personnel: Lux Interior (vocals, harmonica, maracas); Poison Ivy (guitar); Harry Drumdini (drums).Recording information: Hollywood, CA (08/2002).Photographer: Rocky Schenck.Having decided long ago that messing with their one of a kind formula was a fruitless waste of time, the Cramps now seem happy to let albums such as 2003's Fiends of Dope Island perpetuate their unmistakable sound: authentic psychobilly riffs executed with garage punk panache, combined with fun-loving lyrics about bondage, drugs, Satanism, slasher flicks -- in sum, all things kitsch and trash culture. Even better, inexorable advancing age has apparently only served singer Lux Interior's desires, by helping him look like the gloriously decrepit B-movie monster that he's always wanted to be on the record's striking cover. Once inside, the Cramps' latest amusement park house of horrors of an album confirms that Interior is again up to his patented vocal tri