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Rating: Finally, here is the new Album by Bauhaus, who had stopped producing new music since '83. But doubts are not lacking. And unfortunately, I would add.
Very intimate, but strangely not very engaging. The distorted sounds and atmospheres (if we can talk about atmospheres) with a powerful and pressing bass, don't even make your hair stand on end... In some ways almost electronic and in others too sterile, it finds slight style in "Zikir" (closing track), which can be compared to the splendid "Bela Lugosi's Dead", but that does not even remotely reach the dark and chilling inclination of the latter. Strange background noises that neither add nor take away anything simply pass unnoticed by the listener's ears, except in ONE case (in track 7 "Mirrors Remains", in addition to the various background discussions of the band, you can hear Kevin coughing... really strange... really annoying).
Maybe it's just me not having understood anything about this new and apparently final CD, but if "In The Flat Field" shocks for the beauty and agony of the melodies, this one also leaves you shocked, but... because there is nothing inside it that can truly move you.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
02 Adrenalin (05:39)
it'll take you to the top
and out to the edge
shoot up needles through your blood
lay ice under your sledge
shift, crank, pull
shift, crank, pull
adrenaline, adrenaline
shift, crank, adrenaline
it'll put you through your paces
kickstart your heart
push you to the limit
make the finish just the start
shift, crank, pull
shift, crank, pull
shift, crank, pull
adrenaline
a-a-a-drenaline, adrenaline
a-a-a-drenaline, adrenaline
it'll save the life of a junkie
closing on death
counteract the poison
give him back his breath
shift, shift, crank, pull
shift, crank, pull
shift, crank, pull
adrenaline
a-a-a-drenaline, woah-ohhhh
a-a-a-drenaline, a-a-a-adrenaline
pushing flesh and marrow
kicking bone and blood
boosting up the cell count
as the burning bodies flood
adrenaline, adrenaline
shift, crank, pull
shift, crank, pull
a-a-a-drenaline, shift, crank
a-a-a-drenaline, pull
a-a-a-drenaline, adrenaline
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By malley8
Some say it sounds like Peter Murphy's solo work more than Bauhaus as a band.
If it really will be the 'farewell' album... I think they leave us well.
