WILD BILLY CHILDISH AND THE SPARTAN DREGGS - Dreggradation LP alt-country was a genre-dissolving classic that

was a genre-dissolving classic that created a melancholy and psychedelic Cascadian atmosphere

Like the best of today’s rock & roll

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The seven tracks here burst with overstuffed Weasels Ripped My Flesh-style action: bonkers horn arrangements

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WILD BILLY CHILDISH AND THE SPARTAN DREGGS - Dreggradation LP alt-country was a genre-dissolving classic thatAs part of The Spartan Dreggs, Childish takes the back seat, playing bass and adding intermittent back up vocals, while Neil Palmer, a younger, leaner sounding vocalist cut from the same cloth, takes the mic. Mores the pity, as Childishs voice is often the foundation that raises the sound of whatever band hes playing in above and beyond the 1965 Who mimicry that could easily be levied at them. Still, theres plenty here across these three brief records