Yahoo! Music UK review". Archived from the original on 18 August 2004 . Retrieved 13 April 2009. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown ( link) BMG Music Publishing / Warner Chappell / Universal Music Publishing / EMJ Music Publishing / Rough Trade Publishing / Screen Gems-EMI Music Inc. - 4 Pill, Steve (18 October 2004). "Death in Vegas". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 22 July 2023. If the debut album glanced at various stylistic possibilities, the sophomore release The Contino Sessions offered a stark concentrated gaze, a long hard stare down the barrel of a gun. There was nothing dance-worthy or ecstatic about this. This was dark and menacing, a narcotic haze of bad intent, sounding exactly like a death in Vegas, a prophecy fulfilled. Bobby Gillespie (Primal Scream) and Jim Reid (Jesus and Mary Chain) contributed unsavory voices, and most memorably, Iggy Pop stumbled across the album’s seedy landscape. “Aisha / We’ve only just met / And I think you ought to know / I’m a murderer”, beyond being the most startling couple of lines to open a song in recent memory, was the pivotal moment on a vision actualized, a vision toxic with debauched paranoia.

Death in Vegas are an English electronic music group, for which Richard Fearless serves as frontman. [1] The band was formed in 1994 by Fearless and Steve Hellier and signed to Concrete Records under the name of Dead Elvis. Owing to an Irish record label of the same name, Dead Elvis became the title of their first album instead. So You Say You Lost Your Baby" (canceled as a commercial single; was set for release on 7 April 2003) Steffen Hung. "Norwegian charts portal". norwegiancharts.com. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016 . Retrieved 2012-10-05. Scorpio Rising continues along that asymptote towards a supposed "organic" sound, going light on the laptop and heavy on the relics of yesteryear: drums, basses, and guitars. In fact, if not for Death in Vegas' faceless DJ anonymity and a couple of characteristic electronic facets (the implementation of a few choice samples; a roster of Brit-centric celebrity guest vocalists including Paul Weller, Hope Sandoval, and Liam Gallagher), one might assume that the outfit responsible for this album was just a band with a hefty case of NME-approved 60s psych nostalgia.

Death in Vegas Scorpio Rising London DJS Richard..." Archived from the original on 4 March 2016 . Retrieved 30 June 2013. Scorpio Rising" is used in a commercial by the Belgian mobile phone operator Base and at the end of the episode "Touch and Go" of ER. The band released their fifth studio album, Trans-Love Energies, on 26 September 2011 in the UK. The album featured vocals by Katie Stelmanis of Austra and Richard Fearless.

a b c d e f g h i j "Scorpio Rising by Death in Vegas". Metacritic.com . Retrieved 12 November 2021. Rolling Stone review". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 15 January 2008 . Retrieved 13 April 2009. {{ cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown ( link) Official albums Chart results matching: Scorpio Rising". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 8 June 2016. No influence spills into the next song and that makes for fairly rigidly eclectic listening, but it’s done so artfully that there’s never a sense of stylistic boxes simply being crossed. More than most albums, ‘Scorpio Rising’ is the sum of its parts. Happily, those sums addup to… M, Staff (15 January 2015). "Noel Gallagher talks about past collaborations with Amorphous Androgynous and Death In Vegas". OasisMania . Retrieved 22 July 2023.

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Such is the DJ’s imperative. Richard Fearless didn’t form Death In Vegas with Tim Holmes to jam in a studio. They were born out of DJ culture and they apply that mentality to making original music. They think, ‘Wouldn’t it be good to have a Plastikman record followed by a Weller or Byrds-type number?’ So they make a neo-Plastikman techno splurge, ‘Natja’, and follow it with Paul Weller singing (with brilliant, husky disdain) former Byrd Gene Clark’s garage adieu ‘So You Say You Lost Your Baby’. And, like the best DJs, they get away with this most diverse of sequencing.