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Rating: It must be that after so many years the malaise of living looms and you look back. If you haven't thrown away your phone diaries, you can always try calling some of the old friends... They say Iggy managed to easily track down Ron Asheton because he never changed his number.
I suppose Pete Murphy & c. have never really lost sight of each other since the reunion ten years ago that gave us Gotham, and so here they are with "Go away white," a small album of ten new songs, reportedly recorded in just over two weeks, which critics and the public are rushing to stigmatize as useless or celebrate as a shining example of knowing how to make music. Nice like Siouxsie's but not quite as new, already that our guys seem to pick up where they left off - almost as if after "The sky's gone out" they had kept going - and with a lot of Murphy's influence added: so much so that some say it sounds like his stuff (but this was true even for the Velvet reunion: they seemed like Lou Reed's band, so fortunately they let it go) more than Bauhaus "as a band" and already anticipate the next work of new editions from Love and Rockets. I agree, actually, since I liked Bauhaus more for what melodic hints one could faintly perceive in the generally unhealthy sound of their dark style, but even though I have - somewhat occasionally, I admit - followed Murphy's solo efforts, I recognize in this album a more than interesting and more than dignified listening penetration force sufficiently attributable to the collective. Much more than what others have given, anyway.
Clearly, the inspired roughness and unsmoothed energy of times gone by is missing and in some cases we find ourselves slipping into parts in a mannered way, but having Bauhaus being Bauhaus in this case I find even pleasant. Influenced by themselves, we have Murphy, Ash, J, and Haskins providing us doses of goth ("Mirror Remains", "Dog's a Vapour"), alt-rock with a glam twist ("Undone", "International Bulletproof Talent", "Too Much 21st Century"), scratches of a screechy guitar in "Adrenalin", post punk rock in "Black Stone Heart", and down to the Murphian "Zikir" finale. My favorite piece, "Endless Summer of the Damned", where they shake everything together and serve it Bauhaus style.
If it really will be the "farewell" album (as rumored, due to issues that occurred in the studio during the recordings) I think they leave us well. Let's wait for L&R, anyway...
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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