Burial - Burial

Advantages: Bass, dread and fear
Disadvantages: None

...The landscape of London has had its fair share of bards, poets and punks. The city has been eulogised and damned by musicians as varied as The Clash, The Kinks, Patrick Wolf and even those arch Mancunians The Smiths. To that list you can now add the name of Burial. The south London dubstep producer has released a collection of songs that has the city's dirty DNA etched into its grooves. The anonymous back bedroom genius has followed his ground breaking debut with a huge leap forward. Untrue is not the streaked neon and glitter bomb buzz of the West End in the early hours. Nor is it the melancholy romantic sweep of city possibilities so beloved of outsiders. No, Burial has soundtracked the London night out beyond tube lines, the shadowy hinterlands of South London Boroughs. The stuttered shops, graffitied underpasses, the smashed... Read review

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Advantages: Original, Compelling, Hypnotizing
Disadvantages: None

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Advantages: A Few Good Songs, Contains The Best Single Of Their Career
Disadvantages: Very Dark, Scary, Some Poor Songs

.... The production here is by Nils Stevenson & Mike Stavrou and at times Siouxsie's voice sounds dull and flat, during other moments it has more or less been drowned out. Nearly thirty years on Siouxsie and the Banshees are known more as a Goth Band than a Punk Band, and this is probably their most Goth inspired Album to date. There are songs about death, cremation and burials amongst other subjects. The track listing is as follows: 1. Poppy Day 2. Regal Zone 3. Placebo Effect 4. Icon 5. Premature Burial 6. Playground Twist 7. Mother Oh Mein Papa 8. The Lord's Prayer 9. Love In A Void 10. Infantry The Album opens with the sound of Church Bells in "Poppy Day" before Siouxsie starts reciting the words from a Poem called "In Flanders Field." A Canadian man called Lieutenant Colonel John McRae wrote this Poem in 1915. Today... Read review

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