SWAMI JOHN REIS - Ride The Wild Night LP rock John Carpenter and Alan Howarth

John Carpenter and Alan Howarth completely jettisoned their previous work and deliver nothing short of an electronic masterpiece

In 1986 it was the post-hardcore chime of Pitchfork

the songs that comprise Deaths are collectively about the act of finishing

And it couldn't be better

yet shunned the label with a guttersnipe sneer

SWAMI JOHN REIS - Ride The Wild Night LP rock John Carpenter and Alan HowarthNeither similar nor dissimilar to his previous bands (Hot Snakes, Night Marchers, The Sultans, Rocket From The Crypt, Drive Like Jehu, etc) yet immediately familiar (like an old friend asking to borrow some money). The music is an amalgam of 60s folk punk, 70s punk, and pre Vietnam War rock n roll with only one or two new ideas introduced to the form. The sound is built on stentorian bedrock of savage drumming by J. Sinclair K. of Hot Snakes and the