Kid Creole and the Coconuts
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XLR8R says 8/10
By Derek Opperman in XLR8R Magazine
Always one to come out of left field, August Darnell's (a.k.a. Kid Creole) I Wake Up Screaming is his first album in six years, and easily one of his best since the early '80s. Full of references to his long musical career and a complete revival of the sound that made early Kid Creole & The Coconuts records so appealing, I Wake Up Screaming contains the kind of fun, Caribbean-influenced madness that only Darnell can deliver.
Still, a large part of why the record works is because it isn’t just a retread of the past, but instead a reworking of it through a contemporary lens. Joining Darnell on this album and sharing production duties are Hercules & Love Affair's Andy Butler and Chinatown label head Brennan Green. The resulting music brings to mind...
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New Review from CMJ
By Elissa Stolman
Aside from appearing in samples in M.I.A.’s song “Sunshowers” and Ghostface Killah’s “Ghost Showers” as a member of Dr. Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band, August Darnell has kept his womanizing alter ego, Kid Creole, under wraps for the last decade. His return to feel-good tropical pop funk, I Wake Up Screaming, sees the fedora-wearing 1980s star revitalizing his career with an updated and boisterously happy sound. Creole’s comeback mixes genres, wit and personal history with an amicable charisma that could only be cultivated by the type of guy who wears a zoot suit and a fedora any time after1943.
The album’s title track reworks the Coconuts’ 1983 tune “Ticket To The Tropics,” ...
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New Album Released September 13th!
Kid Creole & The Coconuts- I Wake Up Screaming (Sept. 13th on Strut Records)
I Wake Up Screaming Features Collaborations w/ Andy Butler of Hercules & Love Affair
The Tropical Gangster is back. August Darnell a.k.a. Kid Creole returns with his first studio album in over 10 years this Fall, I Wake Up Screaming, an epic new Creolian odyssey recorded for Strut at Darnell's Sweden HQ. With cover artwork echoing his love of 1940s film noir, the new album explores the vibrant mind of Darnell with a variety of themes and styles ranging from the lilting tropical love paean "Verily Verily Verily" to "Stony And Cory," echoing Darnell's early days with Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band. Mixed by Brennan Green (Chinatown Records, New York) and Lars Nissen (Denmark), the album features co-compositions and co-productions with Andy Butler of Hercules & Love Affair. The album will be preceded in July by the dream-like dancefloor winner, "I Do Believe," complete with mixes by Brennan Green, Faze Action, 40 Thieves and Emperor Machine.
Darnell first came to prominence during the mid-'70s in New York, forming Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band with his brother Stony Browder before producing a slew of eccentric projects for ZE Records including Cristina, Don Armando's Seventh Avenue Rumba Band and Gichy Dan, as well as sporting his trademark zoot suit and fedora for the first time for the debut recordings by Kid Creole & The Coconuts. Signing on to Chris Blackwell's Island Records and Seymour Stein's Sire imprint, Darnell would become one of the '80s' most unique and recognisable figures, scoring a brace of unforgettable chart hits mixing heavyweight tropical grooves with plenty of lyrical bite - "Stool Pigeon," "Annie, I'm Not Your Daddy," "I'm A Wonderful Thing Baby" and more.
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