December 9 street date. Reissued on standard black vinyl (the first US Beggars Banquet pressing), 1982's "The Sky's Gone Out" marked a stylistic midpoint in Bauhaus' brief but spectacular career. In comparison with their earlier almost impenetrably convoluted literary references and effectively murky production, this album is lyrically more direct, musically more straightforward, and features vastly cleaner production. The first of these changes is exemplified in the album's second track, "Silent Hedges", with its "going to hell again" chorus and in the bitter "all we ever wanted was everything, all we ever got was cold". The music of "The Sky's Gone Out" is less harsh - almost inviting the listener in before the slicing lyrics drop like poised blades. More fragmented in origin that it might appear on first glance, these songs show Bauhaus in excelsis. Mastered from HD audio files transferred from the original tapes.
December 9 street date. Reissued on standard black vinyl (the first US Beggars Banquet pressing), 1983's "Burning From the Inside" is Bauhaus' most commercial-sounding album. Arguably their most effective, and, sadly, their last album as a group, it shows all of the group's strengths, and creates an immediately identifiable "mood" in the mind of the listener, especially evident in the opening track, "She's in Parties". Bauhaus has a unique ability to wring poignancy and nostalgia out of the weirdest lyrical constructs - as in the album's centerpiece, "Who Killed Mr Moonlight", introduced by piano and mournful saxophone. "Burning From the Inside" displays Bauhaus' timeless, uncanny knack for revealing massive, dense moments in the middle of what would be, in others' hands, straight-ahead rock songs. Mastered from HD audio files transferred from the original tapes.
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