ARTiST: Siouxsie
TiTLE: Mantaray
LABEL: UM3
GENRE: Alternative
TiME: 41:01 min
SiZE: 50,8 MB
BiTRATE: VBRkbps
RiP DATE: Sep-07-2007
RELEASE DATE: Sep-10-2007
WEBSiTE: www.siouxsiemantaray.com
Track List:
01. Into A Swan 04:13
02. About To Happen 02:50
03. Here Comes That Day 04:03
04. Loveless 04:25
05. If It Doesn't Kill You 04:32
06. One Mile Below 03:01
07. Drone Zone 03:22
08. Sea Of Tranquility 05:13
09. They Follow You 05:03
10. Heaven And Alchemy 04:19
Release Notes:
'Mantaray' is the debut studio album from Siouxsie
Sioux (Siouxsie & the Banshees, The Creatures), co-
produced by Siouxsie and Steve Evans (who has worked
with Robert Plant) and Charlie Jones (who has worked
with Goldfrapp).
On this record Siouxsie revels in a sense of
freedom, something much more expansive than was
displayed in any of her previous work. For fans who
thought she might never eclipse her Banshee and
Creature highlights, this will be received with the
form of rapture only reserved for the iconic. For
those who have only dipped into her previous work,
prepare to have any preconceptions shattered. And,
most thrillingly, for a whole new generation of
listeners, a slew of delights and surprises lies in
store on what is surely one of the albums of 2007.
'Mantaray' is remarkable on many fronts, not least
that all 8 tracks show an artist at the absolute
peak of her powers. Musically it moves between the
industrial heavy rhythms of the single 'Into A
Swan', through the modern glam stomp of 'It's About
To Happen' into the complex freeform playfulness of
'Drone Zone', and the electronic, relentlessly
hypnotic 'Sea Of Tranquility', both of which could
be the soundtrack for a David Lynch filmàthis is
music like nothing else around right now.
Lyrically too the album shows Siouxsie in a less
veiled light. It might be too trite to say this is
the sound of the Ice Queen melting, but the
statement has some validity. For a generation whose
teenage years were spent in a liberating rush of
idealised alienation, something had to give long
ago. And just as Siouxsie was never truly the Ice
Queen, this album shows her searching for a sense of
her place in the world. It's altogether a more
human, humane record than she has ever made, and all
the better for it û the themes of the songs might
encompass disappointment, distrust and despair, but
they are bound together by a warmth of spirit that
would have been anathema to the Siouxsie of 1978 but
which is a true picture of this iconic artist in
2007.
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