Heaven Up Here (Remastered) Echo & The Bunnymen

• 1 Show of Strength 04:50
• 2 With a Hip 03:12
• 3 Over the Wall 05:59
• 4 It Was a Pleasure 03:15
• 5 A Promise 04:07
• 6 Heaven up Here 03:47
• 7 The Disease 02:25
• 8 All My Colours 04:05
• 9 No Dark Things 04:26
• 10 Turquoise Days 03:50
• 11 All I Want 04:08
• Total Runtime 44:04

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Echo & the Bunnymen’s second album, Heaven Up Here, was released invMay 1981, under a year after Crocodiles, and gave them their first top 10 album.

Rife with thick atmospherics and brooding dreamscapes, the harrowing songs clatter amidst arrangements infused with requisite air, space, and chamber echoes. Silhouetted guitar leads help convey moody dampness, despair, dread, and disgust, the themes directly connected to narratives that tackle distrust, dishonesty, betrayal, and arrested dreams. Cloudy and jagged for certain, but the majesty of Heaven Up Here relates to how, in spite of the haunted arrangements and claustrophobic feel, ribbons of light and hope illuminate its shadowy corners and nocturnal glow.

"Following their more psychedelia-based debut, Crocodiles, and subsequent "Puppet" single, Echo & the Bunnymen returned in 1981 with the darkest and perhaps most experimental album of their career. Heaven Up Here lacks the signature hooks and melodies that would make the Bunnymen famous, showcasing instead a dirge-like songwriting approach built around the circular rhythms of bassist Les Pattinson and drummer Pete DeFreitas. In this setting, the band remarkably flourishes, although they would go on to greater heights by scaling back the album's extremism. Heaven Up Here's strength is the way in which the Bunnymen seamlessly work together to shape each song's dynamics (the tension underlying the crescendo of "Turquoise Days" being a prime example). Ian McCulloch, having found his trademark confidence, sings with soaring abandon and passion throughout the album. Similarly, Will Sergeant's guitar playing, notably freed from verse-chorus structure and pop riffs, is at its angular finest; his playing on "No Dark Things" is pure Andy Gill-esque skronk. The album's opening troika of "Show of Strength," "With a Hip," and "Over the Wall" (the latter with its jarring, direct invocation of Del Shannon's "Runaway") are particularly effective, establishing the theme of distrust and restlessness which continues throughout the album. Indeed, even the album's lone single, "A Promise," is hardly light, pop material. But the message underneath that darkness, especially in McCulloch's lyrics, is a call to overcome rather than wallow, as the album ends with the relatively euphoric "All I Want." Sitting comfortably next to the pioneering work of contemporaries like Joy Division/New Order, and early Public Image Ltd. and Cure, this is a rather fine -- and in the end, influential -- example of atmospheric post-punk. Having reached the British Top Ten, Heaven Up Here is highly regarded among Echo & the Bunnymen's fans precisely for the reasons which, on the surface, make it one of the least accessible albums in the band's catalog." (Aaron Warshaw, AMG)

Ian McCulloch, Gesang
Will Sergeant, Gitarre
Les Pattinson, Bass
Pete de Freitas, Schlagzeug

Digitally remastered

Echo & The Bunnymen
eine der einflussreichsten Bands der späten 70er und frühen 80er Jahre, die maßgeblich den Sound der New Wave / Post Punk Zeit mitgeprägt haben, kommen für ein exklusives Konzert am 31. Oktober nach Berlin.

An diesem Abend werden die beiden Urmitglieder, Sänger/Gitarrist Ian McCulloch und Gitarrist Will Sergeant, von einer String Section unterstützt um ihre psychdelischenNew Wave und Pop- Hymnen in ein ganz besonderes Gewand zu hüllen. Seit nunmehr fast 40 Jahren sind die Liverpooler aktiv und haben sich seit den eher düsteren ersten Jahren mit schrägen Texten über Drogenexzesse und die damit verbundene Reue, gepaart mit schwarzen Klamotten und Turmfrisuren zu einem eher von Burt Bacharach Arrangements beeinflusste Popband gemausert, die auch weiterhin ihren ganz eigen Weg gehen wird.

Die kürzlich beendete UK Tour führte die Band unter anderem in legendäre Konzerthallen wie die Usher Hall in Edinburgh, Birmingham`s Symphony Hall und endete in der legendären Royal Albert Hall in London.

Das neue Album, „The Stars, The Oceans & The Moon“wurde gerade fertiggestellt und erscheint via BMG am 05. Oktober. Es enthält 13 Bunnymen Classic, die mit „Strings and Things“ neu aufgenommen wurden. Zudem bekommt man noch zwei brandneue Songs „The Sonambulist“ und „HowFar?“dargeboten. Aufgenommen wurde im The Dog House Studios mit Co-Produzent Andy Wright. Mac sagt zu den neuen Aufnahmen: „Ich mache das für niemand anderes als für mich. Ich mache das weil es mir wichtig ist die Songs noch besser zu machen. Ich muss das tun.“

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