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Echo & the Bunnymen
Released 1983

Heads Will Roll
03:32
439 plays

Back of Love
03:15
430 plays

Porcupine
05:57
428 plays

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songs

- 1
- The Cutter
- 03:54
- 2,153 plays

- 2
- Back of Love
- 03:15
- 430 plays

- 3
- My White Devil
- 04:39
- 368 plays

- 4
- Clay
- 04:16
- 342 plays

- 5
- Porcupine
- 05:57
- 428 plays

- 6
- Heads Will Roll
- 03:32
- 439 plays

- 7
- Ripeness
- 04:48
- 324 plays

- 8
- Higher Hell
- 05:04
- 297 plays

- 9
- Gods Will Be Gods
- 05:26
- 285 plays

- 10
- In Bluer Skies
- 04:32
- 291 plays

album review

The group's third album is a solid outing, a noticeably better listen than its predecessor, Heaven Up Here. Songs are intriguing and elaborate, often featuring swooping, howling melodic lines. Arrangements here owe a lot to 1960s psychedelia and feature lots of reverb, washed textures, intricate production touches, and altered guitar sounds. Ian McCulloch's vocals are yearning, soaring, and hyper-expressive here, almost to the point of being histrionic, most notably on "Clay," "Ripeness," and the title track. Driving bass and drums lend the songs urgency and keep the music from collapsing into self-indulgence. Parallels between the group's U.S. contemporaries such as Translator, Wire Train, and R.E.M. can be drawn, though all seem to have developed aspects of this style at about the same time -- and none utilize it as flamboyantly as the Bunnymen do. Highlights here include "Back of Love" (with its galloping drumbeat and fragmented yet ardent vocal line) and "Gods Will Be Gods" (which gradually speeds up from beginning to end, working itself into a swirling frenzy). This album is well worth hearing. ~ David Cleary, All Music Guide