A couple of years back I was smitten by Dan Haywood’s extraordinary Country Dustbin; a single fifty-two minute track, recorded as one take with arcane, poetic lyrics delivered as an extended, cyclical garage blues. Here was clearly a major talent lurking in the north of England. It wasn’t his first memorable production either, as earlier, after a period birding on the high coasts of Scotland, there had been the thirty-two track epic Dan Haywood’s New Hawks described variously as ‘a future cult classic’, ‘a wild eyed mix of cosmic country and chamber-folk’, and ‘very far out’.
In between those two releases there’d been another incarnation as Pill Fangs as he fronted a four-piece fully in sync with the garage rock aesthetic of New York punk from the Velvets to the Voidoids. Pre-pandemic they spawned PF1 and PF2, and now after a four-year hiatus are returned with the upcoming PF7. Initially available digitally with a limited edition (already fast-selling) 7”single it’ll be released on 21st July. Meanwhile here’s a preview of the single A-side and album opener ‘Young Egyptian’; a brief and rambunctious true story that will well and truly whet the appetite.
Bucketfull Of Brains 