Cargo Records

Kiss My Sweet Apocalypse

KISS MY SWEET APOCALYPSE is the debut double-LP and 2CD set from Julian Cope’s brand new free action group Black Sheep, a nine or ten piece ensemble of outsider reprobates whose spirited performances upon massed orchestral percussion, Mellotron 400s and acoustic guitars summon dead ancestors and memories of times past in an effort to achieve total psychic Meltdown.

Black Sheep music is of the moment, beautiful as a princess one minute, hobbling like a smitten ditch- dweller the next.
Songs are long and strung out, combining chanting and street protest with ambient meditations on the Culture Heroes of the Past. Eulogies to such Revolutionaries as Che Guevara (‘Ernesto’), Ulrike Meinhof (‘We’re the Baa-aader-Meinhof’) and one of Cope’s long time obsessions Leila Khaled, are offset by chanting and massed drum works outs (‘Protest Underground’, ‘War! Peace!’, ‘Underground Resistance’) and tripped out ambulant pieces such as the near-half- hour long title track.

Clothed in Anarchist red-and-black replete with a delightful Black Sheep calendar, KISS MY SWEET APOCALYPSE is, unfortunately, for Motherfuckers and the children of Motherfuckers only.

CD in a deluxe digi pack with a 28 page booklet.