Track Listing

1. The Cutter
2. Back Of Love
3. My White Devil
4. Clay
5. Porcupine
6. Heads Will Roll
7. Ripeness
8. Higher Hell
9. Gods Will Be Gods
10. In Bluer Skies

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #111738 in Music
• Released on: 1996-04-01
• Number of discs: 1
• Original language: English

Chronique amazon.fr
Troisième album du groupe, Porcupine est le disque qui révéla à un public plus vaste le groupe de Ian Mc Culloch, en 1983. En effet, par le biais du single à succès "The Cutter", Echo & The Bunnymen a pu faire entendre sa new wave, sombre et mélancolique, au-delà du cercle de fans conquis par les deux albums précédents. À l'image de l'époque et de la pochette, les dix morceaux sont assez froids, sans compromissions ni artifices, avec un jeu de guitares brillant. L'album se conclut par "In Bluer Skies", superbe morceau qui laisse augurer des succès futurs du groupe, vers des cieux plus bleus donc... --Florent Mazzoleni

Album Description
Limited vinyl LP repressing of this 1983 album from the Liverpudlian quartet. Porcupine is Echo & The Bunnymen's most profound and personal album from their early period. Weathering band turmoil, rejections from their record company and spans of songwriting drought, the group emerged with a passionate and compelling set of songs described by vocalist Ian McCulloch as 'coming to terms with the opposites in me.' While the album includes both 'The Back of Love' and 'The Cutter' (two of their most upbeat and successful singles), most of the material was fairly introverted and autobiographical. Unfortunately suffering negative reviews upon release (including a misguided hate-piece in the NME), Porcupine has since become a gold standard for both the band and British underground Rock from the '80s. It's also simultaneously their most retro album and their most forward-looking. The production is full of guitar effects that must have set the mind of Kevin Shields onto the path to My Bloody Valentine's own masterpiece, Loveless.

Album Details
Their Third Album is a Solid Outing. With Elaborate, Often featuring Swooping, Howling Melodic Lines. Many of the Arrangements Echo 1960's Psychedelia with Plenty of Reverb, Altered Guitar Sounds and Textures. Highlights Include the Relentless First Single "Back of Love" and the Crescendoing "Gods Will Be Gods".