Great gloomy 80s psych. Definitely a glam crash, not the pop Bunnymen of the mid-to-late 80s, nor the crisp post-punk Bunnymen of Crocodiles, this is a twitchier, sobbier, drunker and stoneder collection of dour imagery, full of late-night collapses and horror flashes, a world in which all that was ever good in the world is lost forever and nothing that remains is worth saving. (Which is more or less how I remember most of the 1980s, actually). The band sounds driven, though, and the songs are beautiful.
Great gloomy 80s psych. Definitely a glam crash, not the pop Bunnymen of the mid-to-late 80s, nor the crisp post-punk Bunnymen of Crocodiles, this is a twitchier, sobbier, drunker and stoneder collection of dour imagery, full of late-night collapses and horror flashes, a world in which all that was ever good in the world is lost forever and nothing that remains is worth saving. (Which is more or less how I remember most of the 1980s, actually). The band sounds driven, though, and the songs are beautiful.
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you introduced me to this album. it took several listens for me to "get it." but it has since become one of my very favorite albums.
Yeah, it's a weird one, it doesn't have the lyrical Doorsiness of the later stuff, or the punkiness of the earlier. But it does have something really special. The genuine sound of crippling depression, maybe.
Glad I was able to turn you on to it. The least I can do, for your Tangerine Dream/Phaedra initiation way back when.
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