Artist: Echo & The Bunnymen
Title: Porcupine
Release: 1983
Format: LP
Label: Korova
Catalog# 240027-1
“Porcupine” is the third studio album by the British post-punk band Echo & the Bunnymen.
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).
Side one
1. The Cutter (3:50)
2. Back Of Love (3:12)
3. My White Devil (4:30)
4. Clay (4:10)
5. Porcupine (5:55)
Side two
1. Heads Will Roll (3:28)
2. Ripeness (4:46)
3. Higher Hell (5:00)
4. Gods Will Be Gods (4:10)
5. In Bluer Skies (5:55)
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