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Track Listing
1. Light From a Dead Star
2. Kiss Chase
3. Blackout
4. Hypocrite
5. Lovelife
6. Desire Lines
7. Invisible Man, The
8. Undertow
9. Never-Never
10. Lit Up
11. Starlust
12. When I Die
| Details | | Producer: | Lush, Mike Hedges | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Lush: Miki Berenyi (vocals, guitar); Emma Anderson (guitar, background vocals); Philip King (bass); Chris Acland (drums).
Additional personnel: Martin Ditcham (percussion).
Recorded at Rockfield Studios, Wales, U.K.; Berry House, Sussex, England; Abbey Road Studios, London, England from October to December, 1993.
Albums like SPLIT are definitive time capsules for the post-psychedelia, female-led bands who blur the line between late-80s shoe gazers and ambient rock. Taking a cue from the genre's best known bands, My Bloody Valentine and the Cocteau Twins, Lush's combination of ethereal vocals and alternately dreamy and aggressive guitars literally shimmer through the speakers.
The song titles on SPLIT give a good idea of the band's take on the rock world. There's the dreamy ambient side obvious in "Light From A Dead Star," with an extended string and synthesizer introduction. And then the SPLIT becomes evident in the power-pop "Blackout" which exhibits their weaned-on-power-chords mentality.
Lush's sound describes the breathy wordlessness that inspires teenage girls to run for their journals. The album's production adds to the band's all-around atmosphere of chiming guitars and melodies which waft in and out of focus. SPLIT is another piece of Lush's ambient-rock offerings.
Industry Reviews
3.5 Stars - Good - ...dreamlike, beautiful and disturbing...Lush are even more haunting...
Rolling Stone (09/08/1994)
6 - Good - ...As with most of SPLIT, there are close '60s girl-group harmonies, sometimes from hell, and it's difficult to reconcile the pleasant, often beautiful, music with the scary content...
NME (06/11/1994)
...this album maintains everything likeable about Lush's past work while adding a tad more variation...
Option (08/01/1994)
...Sparer and better than SPOOKY, SPLIT still suggests that Lush may be better at producing material for EPs rather than whole albums...
Alternative Press (09/01/1994)
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