Advantages: 9 art rock classics Disadvantages: er, the cover?
...- released their debut album in 1980, at the height of the indie boom. It's clear that Murphy had been aping Bowie with his vocal style, indeed critisicm of the band would be that they were no more than Bowie clones. That's essentially unfair, as this forgotten classic shows. Ash was a good guitarist in his own right, and this is as much his record as it is Murphy's.
For 2-3 years Bauhaus (named after the 1930's German art movement) were just about ... ...drumwork, leaving the listener in no doubt what to expect for the rest of this record.
Low rumbling bass opens the great piece "In The Flat Field", "I get bored, I get bored, in the flat field", howls the vocals, with more guitars again more edgier than The Edge himself. A great outro to this, echoing guitars over great fretwork
Another outstanding track "God In An Alcove" - driven along by David J and alternating between light/heavy sections, ...
pinkmatchstick 29.10.2004
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