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Track Listing 1. Stormy Weather 2. All Because of You Days 3. Parthenon Drive 4. In the Margins 5. Of a Life 6. Make Us Blind 7. Everything Kills You 8. Siberia 9. Sideways Eight 10. Scissors in the Sand 11. What If We Are?
| Details | | Producer: | Hugh Jones | | Distributor: | E1 Distribution (USA) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes Echo & The Bunnymen: Ian McCulloch (vocals, guitar); Will Sergeant (guitar); Paul Fleming (keyboards); Peter Wilkinson (bass guitar); Simon Finley (drums). Recording information: Parr Street Studios, Liverpool, England. On SIBERIA, Echo & the Bunnymen's first studio album since 2001's FLOWERS, the brooding Liverpool band reunites with producer Hugh Jones, who worked on the post-punk group's revered early-1980s records CROCODILES and HEAVEN UP HERE. Collaborating with Jones, vocalist/guitarist Ian McCulloch and guitarist Will Sergeant avoid the pomp and circumstance of outings such as OCEAN RAIN, giving these new songs a welcome immediacy, most notably on the chiming, poppy "Stormy Weather" and the dreamy "In the Margins." Although McCulloch's deep voice lacks its former range, time has given it a charmingly raspy quality that plays nicely off of Sergeant's signature swirling guitar lines. Easily one of Echo & the Bunnymen's best latter-day albums, SIBERIA wisely nods to the band's classic early output without attempting to duplicate it.
Industry Reviews 3 stars out of 5 - Together, Ian McCulloch's appealingly weathered voice and Sergeant's serpentine guitar still evoke the mordant heroism of their peak.
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