Search - Echo & the Bunnymen :: Fountain

Track Listings (11) - Disc #1
1. Think I Need It Too
2. Forgotten Fields
3. Do You Know Who I Am?
4. Shroud Of Turin
5. Life Of A Thousand Crimes
6. The Fountain
7. Everlasting Neverendless
8. Proxy
9. Drivetime
10. The Idolness Of Gods
11. November (Bonus Track)

CD Details

All Artists: Echo & the Bunnymen
Title: Fountain
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: 101 DISTRIBUTION
Original Release Date: 1/1/2009
Re-Release Date: 12/29/2009
Album Type: Import
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
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Synopsis

Album Description

Australian pressing including one bonus track: 'November '. 2009 release, the 10th studio album from the veteran Liverpudlian band led by vocalist Ian McCulloch and guitarist Will Sergeant. Along with Teardrop Explodes and Wah! Heat, Echo & the Bunnymen were part of the early-1980s Liverpool scene that was somewhat misleadingly dubbed Neo-Psychedelic. While the Bunnymen bore elements of the Doors' dark, mysterious sound and decidedly abstract lyrics, Punk played as much of a role in the development of the band's music as anything else. What marks their sound more than anything else, though, is a soaring, anthemic quality that can be quite affecting. 11 tracks.

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CD Reviews

Echos of Echo

Melkor | San Diego, CA USA | 04/29/2010

(3 out of 5 stars)

"On first listen, I really did not like the new Echo & the Bunnymen CD. A shame, because I took to "Siberia" almost immediately. After several months, and seeing E&tB play a blistering live show, I still have not taken to this CD.

There are many, many newer and younger bands out there now trying to sound like Echo, and generally trying capture the sound of the "post-punk" era. Some are pretty good (I like The Horrors and Interpol). Most (e.g. The Bravery) are talented-but-boring, and are really pale comparisons to the original bands they are trying to emulate. My problem with "The Fountain" is that Echo sound like they are trying to sound like the bands that are trying to sound like them. The song structure and production sound like all the generic bands lacking creativity/originality that are putting out music now. It is very disappointing.

The album simply doesn't work as a whole (for me). A real let-down, since "Siberia" was so great. The live show is still incredible, so I hope "The Fountain" is just a fluke. Others seem to like this album, especially new fans who don't seem as familiar with the older material. Some of the songs to work well on their own when I'm listening on "random", out of context, so I'll give it a 3/5."