Siouxsie and the Banshees The Rapture 2xLP Blue Vinyl 140g RM Import New Sealed
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Siouxsie and the Banshees - The Rapture 2xLP Blue Vinyl RM Import New Sealed
National Album Day 2023 2 x LP reissue pressed on transparent blue vinyl. Disc one is transparent turquoise, disc two is a dark transparent blue. Vinyl is housed in black paper poly-lined inners and also comes supplied with additional colour replica inner sleeves.
Text/barcode label on shrink wrap reads:
"140g colour vinyl mastered and cut Half-Speed
at Abbey Road Studios, London.
The Rapture is the eleventh and final studio album by the British rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees. It was released on 16 January 1995 in the United Kingdom and on 14 February 1995 in the United States. The album was recorded in two block sessions. The songs with cello arrangements, including the title track as well as "Fall from Grace" and "Not Forgotten", were produced by the band in 1993, and John Cale produced the remaining songs in mid-1994.
In 2023, the album was reissued on double LP blue vinyl
Melody Maker wrote: "The Rapture is a fascinating, transcontinental journey through danger and exotica". Describing the arrangements, they added, "it's a vivid cornucopia of lush instrumentation, mandolins vying with cellos and bells, sweeping strings describing starlit oceans and sirens calling from jagged rocks, and attics that hide secret worlds". Steve Malins of Vox also liked the album. He said, "The title-track is a sublime melodrama recalling the experimentation of Peepshow and 1982's Kiss in the Dreamhouse", before concluding with this sentence, "The Rapture represents an intelligent twist on familiar Banshees obsessions". Liz Buckley of Sun Zoom Spark also praised it, writing, "How is a band that first formed almost two decades ago able to remain both vital and celebrated? Answer: Metamorphosis". Buckley also declared that "the album is able to excite the hairs on the back of your neck". Select gave it a rating of four out of five, hailing the band as "purveyors of scary pop par excellence". Matt Hall noted the ability of the group for "trotting out jolly tunes about mental breakdown, love bordering on obsession and severely dislocated relationships." The reviewer characterised The Rapture as a "fine little Russian doll of a record", and said, "Under the keyboard lines, swelling strings and OTT percussion, at the centre of every song is a nugget of disquiet that keeps you listening again and again." Writing in the 2004 edition of The Rolling Stone Album Guide, Mark Coleman and Mac Randall described The Rapture as "a lackluster affair". AllMusic retrospectively rated the album four out of five stars, saying: "The surprise is that it's a career highpoint" as "Siouxsie, Severin and Budgie rediscovered their chemistry". Reviewer Alex Ogg noted that "Despite nods to the band's past in the savage "Not Forgotten," the real gems are the sunny-side-up "O, Baby" (when did Siouxsie ever sound so genuinely happy?) and an 11-minute title-track that is as dazzling as anything they have ever performed." Ogg concluded: it is "a classic case of leaving the scene on a high note"Siouxsie and the Banshees were a British rock band formed in London in 1976 by vocalist Siouxsie Sioux and bassist Steven Severin. Post-punkpioneers, they were widely influential, both over their contemporaries and later acts. The Times called the group "one of the most audacious and uncompromising musical adventurers of the post-punk era"
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