- CONCERT REVIEW: Elvis Birthday Bash, Lobster Quadrille, Lovesick Heartstabbers
- By the time you were aware of the combined calamity and effect, you were already swept up in it. It was inspiring, haunting, and incredible, with frontman Solomon Blaylock leading the whole damned revival with utter glee. It was as if he had the whole flock in the lifeboat, but the lake was on fire. [Read More...]
- The Lobster Quadrille
- The Lobster Quadrille presents flawlessly, dressed like high-society Southerners (circa 1940), and they jam with a bible-thumping seriousness. The result is a raucous jubilee played by the ghosts of culture past. [Read More...]
- Leader of the local Southern Gothic band talks about sex, death religion and other influences
- We really used to play up that satanic tent revival thing — which is definitely an aspect of what we do. I’m sure it’ll always be an aspect, but if you actually listen to this CD and look at the lyrics, a lot of them deal with sort of metaphysical concerns. There really isn’t a lot of the explicit faux-religiosity thing coming through. [Read More...]
- The Devil's In The Details - A Look At The New Lobster Quadrille Album
- Live, the Lobster Quadrille – which at the time of this recording consisted of seven members but has since expanded – summons a formidable, muscular sound with a high measure of precision and command. In fact, it’s the band’s ability to pull back that ultimately puts a stronger accent on its aggressive side. [Read More...]
- Group's singer promises a 'hell of a lot of fun' during CD release party
- "It is ramshackle, clanky and sometimes it is very gospel" Blaylock says. "There are ragged blues and punk and klezmer in there. The CD is a bit more nuanced than the live performances, so there is slow burn. (There's) cues taken from band marches and reggae and a lot of other things." [Read More...]
- The Lobster Quadrille rocks the revival with a Southern-gothic twist
- Whether you listen to its latest EP, Southern Apologist, or stand in the choir that is preached upon, The Lobster Quadrille offers true-to-life tales of love, death, sex, drugs and divorce, and the gospel of a truly tortured soul. Its haunted gospel sound hints at mood-setters like Johnny Cash, Dame Darcy and Nick Cave, while maintaining the charge of Devo, The Sonics and Manchester post-punk. [Read More...]
- The Lobster Quadrille Doesn't Need an Amen
- The Lobster Quadrille is a seven-piece band steeped in faded-lace Southern gothic pathos, ethos, superstition, and doom. Sepia-toned songs of cotillions, consumption, damnation, elation, and salvation pour out like the sweat on frontman Solomon Blaylock's brow. The band's ragtag hobo instrumentality ---- clarinet, organ, tambourine, bucket, washboard, slide whistle, kazoo, pots 'n' pans, and odds 'n' ends, along with the more rudimentary guitar, bass, and drums --- gives The Lobster Quadrille the feel of a post-war carnival...if that carnival were to break out in the middle of a funeral. [Read More...]
