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Burning Blue Soul (CD)

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DISC 1 for Burning Blue Soul (CD) Album By The The (Artist)
1   Red Cinders In The Sand
2   Song Without An Ending
3   Time Again For The Golden Sunset
4   Icing Up
5   Sun Risin' Thru My Garden, (Like A)
6   Out Of Control
7   Bugle Boy
8   Delirious
9   Rivers Flow East In Spring, The
10   Another Boy Drowning
 

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NME (Magazine) (6/5/93, p.36) - (7) - Very Good - "...Don't let [BURNING BLUE SOUL's] vignettes of spooked-out inventiveness gather dust..."

Title Note

Personnel: Matt Johnson (vocals, various instruments).

Additional personnel: Bruce Gilbert (guitar); Graham Lewis (piano).

Producers: Matt Johnson, Bruce Gilbert, Graham Lewis, Pete Maben, Ivo Watts-Russell.

Includes liner notes by Ian Pye.

Recorded in the spring/summer of 1981.

Digitally remastered by Howie Weinberg.

Matt Johnson released BURNING BLUE SOUL in 1981 under his own name. It clearly stated the themes that would preoccupy him throughout his career and, in 1999, it was reissued as a The The album. Apart from some minor help from Wire's Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis, Johnson recorded the album alone, lyrically and musically exploring topics like isolation, loss, fear, and regret. Using everything from drum machines and tape loops to brittle, echoing guitars and a variety of vocal effects, he created a solid foundation from which to build an alienated, but very human, sound.

Though the album features a lot of electronics (especially for 1980), it doesn't suffer from the dated sound that mars much early '80s electronic music. Highlights include the grim, clanging instrumental "Red Cinders in the Sand," and the desperate "Bugle Boy," which evokes THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD-era David Bowie. The disorienting "The River Flows East in Spring," complete with sampled native chanting, sounds a bit like a jug-band with industrial pretensions, while "Another Boy Drowning" ranks among Johnson's best, featuring a watery, radiating guitar, and suicide note lyrics. BURNING BLUE SOUL is vintage The The.

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