Continuing the series of reviews where critics get wrong-footed in their real-time reactions to an album, here is Dave McCullough mystifyingly underwhelmed by Siouxsie and the Banshees's A Kiss In The Dreamhouse. If not indisputably their best album, it's certainly right up there, and it's definitely their most expansive and experimental effort - but here it gets a measly three stars and is judged to be a misfire..
I also found it puzzling that he harps on about John McGeoch as the record's star and saving grace, because it doesn't leap out to my ears as a guitar-dominated record... McGeoch is much more the forefront dominant on Kaleidoscope and Juju, I'd have said.
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And meanwhile the Toyah live album gets ****!
ReplyDeleteNot from Dave admittedly, but yeah, a ridiculous discrepancy.
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