INCA BABIES back on the chain gang with ‘Two Rails To Nowhere’

MANCHESTER post-punk legends INCA BABIES present a second track from November’s ‘Reincarnation’ album (Black Lagoon Records), the reworked ‘Two Rails To Nowhere.’

Initially part of their fourth album, 1988’s ‘Evil Hour,’ the song was originally a three-minute folk rock offering, however today’s expanded version breathes new life into the classic, country penitentiary tune.

“The song was a take on Western blues, in the guise of Woody Guthrie and Burl Ives, maybe having the same sorrowful tale of ‘Worried man Blues’ from the ‘50s,” said Harry Stafford. “Now it has been re-recorded and slowed down to a more contemplative pace. and with floating guitars and harmonic vocal blues the story becomes all the more of the prison song it was intended to be.”

Led by Stafford, Inca Babies were a major part of the UK postpunk/death-rock scene, releasing six singles and four albums, disbanding in 1988, reforming in 2007. Now a four-piece, Stafford (guitar/keys/vocs) is joined by guitarist Jim Adama, bassist Dave Carmichael and long-term member Rob Haynes (The Membranes, Goldblade) on drums and percussion.

November’s ’Reincarnation’ album is a collection of re-recorded and re-invented Inca Babies tracks, recorded and mixed over two years at 6Db Studios in Salford by producer Simon ‘Ding’ Archer (The Fall, PJ Harvey), mastering by Marco Butcherat  North Carolina’s Boombox Studio.

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