A song rolls
Through the family tree
And blood flows
Through the roots of you and me

Blood Sucking Maniacs Are Loose!

Time to get sucked. The eponymous double album by Blood Sucking Maniacs, the Allen family band helmed by Terry and Jo Harvey Allen and spanning five generations, is out today, in shops and streaming worldwide. 121 years in the making, it’s the first release of all-new Terry Allen recordings since 2020’s Just Like Moby Dick.

Grip the record and buy tickets to the May 21 record release show at Austin’s Paramount Theatre below. If any of you saw Terry’s shows at Big Ears las month, you know that this is a night not to be missed. Read on for details, an unboxing video, and advance praise.

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The deluxe gatefold double-LP edition features an insert booklet with lyrics and an essay by Brendan Greaves, author of biography Truckload of Art: The Life and Work of Terry Allen, a New York Times Best Art Book of 2024. The gatefold single-CD edition features replica LP artwork and an 8pp. insert.

Maniacal Praise

An exquisite corpse as family scrapbook, so personal in its intent it also functions like a freewheeling conversation around a big dinner table … A beautiful swamp of relatively quotidian elements in surreal juxtapositions, which end up documenting a journey into unknown realms … The musical mood remains as inviting as hell … So sit down/ pass the tequila and pork pozole, and prepare to be revelated. – Byron Coley, The Wire

9/10, Americana Album of the Month. A celebration of familial love and togetherness … The beauty of this warm, convivial double album lies in its almost minimal spaciousness. – Uncut

A sensational assault … makes you want to start right back at the beginning as soon as you exit … It takes a hell of a piece of music to bring us back to ourselves, but Blood Sucking Maniacs will do it … That’s a hell of an achievement from the Allen crew. And Blood Sucking Maniacs is a hell of an album. – Cowboy Jamboree

Exquisite … [It] illuminates the Allen family as a crucial branch on the beautifully gnarled-up tree of Texas tradition … Terry Allen’s consistently been more art-school than typically outlaw, and so it remains with the superb family excursion of Blood Sucking Maniacs. – The Vinyl District

Stepping into Terry Allen’s world is always worth doing … As always, Paradise of Bachelors go all out on the packaging, with a gatefold cover and booklet. – MOJO

The Allen family’s life has been as much an inspiration for me as Terry’s wonderful art and music. – David Byrne

Terry Allen is my hero. – Kurt Vile