Echo & The Bunnymen

The beauty of writing a review of Ocean Rain lies in the entrance. Do you start by painting the whole piece in gothic indigo? Allude to the optimism and resolve that runs through the work like a silver stream? Get incensed over the sweet-smelling oblations to The Doors? Or shall you compare it to a full…

After Ocean Rain, Echo sat silent for a spell. This single signals the end of the show. It would be two more years until they released another album, then three, then seven. So fans were left to trot out Horses to keep their bunnycandle lit. The murky B side, “Over Your Shoulder,” wasn’t going to…

Ian was gone and Pete was gone gone and all that remained was a familiar Echo. At least that’s how the would-be elegists wrote it, since to them the head was gone and only the arms kept twitching. I won’t accord vocalist Noel Burke the high honors heaped at Ian McCulloch, but the man can…

Not your usual cut-price compilation, The Cutter is better than that. Imp usually handles this department, since they’re almost always impulse purchases, but the poor thing’s out of her field. Forget what you know about repackaged product and thank your lucky stars that someone went out on a limb with The Cutter. Hard-to-find B sides…

Kronomyth 9.0: IAN & THE BUNNYMAN. This followup to Evergreen is actually an Ian McCulloch solo album in disguise, so I’ll dock it an imaginary star for roughly using the Bunnyname and then tell you this is the best thing he’s done since Candleland. At times, WAYGTDWYL sounds like Bono fronting The Smiths, which is a…