by redgumball » Sat Sep 21, 2013 3:44 pm
Someone actually liked what Youth did with the Mac solo album? Jeezus.
Adding a geezer to the helm doesn't impress me. The Bunnymen have been dropping shitty albums since Evergreen - the last one almost severed their own throat. The solo albums take a nostalgic turn, but I couldn't even listen to them - gutted. With harps indeed!
Adding a guy from Killing Joke, who might be older than dirt (and in the same twilight, crooning phase) just doesn't offer much to be excited about. Looking backwards and not forwards is proving to be dangerous (Subaru excluded). Can we get a polka mix of Killing Moon please? It's the only version I don't have...
Adrift without a rudder...the one positive is the lack of Toot and the sounds of Poltergeist. Proves, Will still knows what fans like and has some ballsy edge to him to try a full album of kraut--psych-rock.
We're dreaming if the new album even comes close to Evergreen - at this point (which isn't even the best material). I'd offer this:
Throw away the egos, done the raincoats, mend the bridges, set sail for Crystal Days. Take a note from some of younger bands, who do an imitation of the bunnymen better than the actual Bunnymen. Tale a chunk of coal and scratch it in the ground.
Macca, you want Bunnymen lite (Nat King Cole, Sinatara after hours) then try to craft songs like The National - gutteral, catchy, Joy Division Crooning. Scratch the past like Crystal Stilts - everyone's going retro. Can you?