FIVE DOLLAR PRIEST - Jazz Salt LP

Housed in a scandalous gatefold sleeve.

From the steamy gutters of Manhattan, Five Dollar Priest deliver their second album. Five Dollar Priest was made up of members of Speedball Baby, Swans and Mercury Rev, and that´s what it sounds like.

If you're looking for reference points, think of The Birthday Party with a jazzy, drunken, leering swagger, or James Chance trapped in a straitjacket. In fact, James Chance appears as an 'additional player' here on sax and keyboards, which must be an indication of the quality here, hell of a guest spot to acquire. There's punishing guitar and percussion, jazzy skronks and squawks, and the whole thing just reeks of a sleazy seediness. If this had been released in the time and place it conveys, it would have been hailed as a no-wave monster.

A combination of NYC free jazz with looping rhythms and ripped street preaching. Like William Burroughs backed by Miles Davis on a base of Suicide.