New Bauhaus album due in March

[skellngtn]

Bauhaus - Bowing Out With New Album
December 4th, 2007, 7:58 pm
The good news for BAUHAUS fans: the group is eyeing a March 4 release for “Going Away White,” its first studio album since 1983. The bad news: there will be no further activity from the legendary goth band, who reunited in 2005 for the Coachella festival and later toured the world.
“We were getting along really well, but there was an incident that occurred,” drummer Kevin Haskins tells Billboard.com, declining to elaborate further. “Some of us just felt that we didn’t want to carry on as a working unit.”
As such, “Going Away White,” which the band is releasing digitally via iTunes and on CD via its own Bauhaus Music imprint through Redeye Distribution, will close the book on BAUHAUS. Haskins, guitarist Daniel Ash, bassist David J and vocalist Peter Murphy recorded the album last year after entering the studio “with nothing prepared,” according to Haskins.
“I was concerned because history most of the time has proved that when groups reform and record, it doesn’t work out,” he says. “We all decided, let’s just give it a go and see if it’s working.
What emerged were songs Haskins says stay true to the original BAUHAUS spirit, including “Adrenaline” and “Endless Summer of the Damned,” which were performed during a summer 2006 tour with NINE INCH NAILS.
“Now, there’s a little bit of an empty feeling because we can’t tour with it,” Haskins admits. “All the same, it’s something we’re very proud of, and we feel a lot of people will be interested to hear it.”

01 "Too Much 21st Century"
02 "Adrenalin"
03 "Undone"
04 "International Bullet Proof Talent"
05 "Endless Summer of the Damned"
06 "Saved"
07 "Mirror Remains"
08 "Black Stone Heart"
09 "Zikir"

[skellngtn]

not that anyone seems to care but
(the non-fans might get a kick out of the pompousness towards the end):
December 14, 2007

BAUHAUS - ‘GO AWAY WHITE’


“I come with this darkness and go away white.”


Bauhaus slid fully formed from punk rock's womb in late 1978. Over the course of four hot years, they unintentionally birthed a genre (Goth), moved on, moved forward, and surged mercurial through the post-punk music scene, tearing into tense, stark, dub bass-driven new-wave, T-Rex-esque glam, and swirling, clattering, orchestral atmospherics, whilst churning it all into a grand velvet, Rimbaudian hallucination. It was a wild, inspired, enthralling sound. And it still is. Now there is a new record.


‘Go Away White’ was recorded in 18 days at Zircon Skye in Ojai, with singer Peter Murphy, bassist David J, guitarist Daniel Ash, and drummer Kevin Haskins playing together as a band in one room, taking first takes as final cuts. So, a new record but apparently a final one, the band having decided to release it as a posthumous swan song.


‘Go Away White’ is everything you would
hope Bauhaus would deliver as their final statement. Fronted by a cover photo of Bethesda, the angel of the healing waters in New York's Central Park, the music inside is pure cathartic renovation, a psychedelic glimpse into an enchanted moment. Aided in part by guitarist Daniel Ash's inspired use of Jimi Hendrix's own personal Vox wah wah pedal, gifted to him by Peter Murphy at the start of the sessions, it is pop as much as it is experimental.


The 10 songs on ‘Go Away White’ channel the kind of magic timelessness you could imagine on a mighty bill with Joy Division, Bowie, Devo, the Creatures, Antony, My Bloody Valentine, and Kraftwerk--with Oscar Wilde playing master of ceremonies.


As the NME once said, "Bauhaus are to Goth, what Radiohead are to Prog." It's all building blocks. Give ‘Go Away White’ an honest minute and you'll realize that The Klaxons, The Killers, The Rapture and Foals all got their beats from Bauhaus, and how--without them--there would be no Nine Inch Nails or Jane's Addiction or Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand, AFI, TV on the Radio, Interpol, Hot Hot Heat or LCD Sound System.


The accomplishments of the band are too many to list here but to touch lightly, there are the four studio albums: ‘In the Flat Field’ (1980), ‘Mask’ (1981), ‘The Sky's Gone Out’ (1982), and ‘Burning from the Inside’ (1983). There is the riveting appearance with David Bowie in the movie,‘The Hunger’. There are the classic Peel sessions and the hits--seismic rumbles such as ‘She's in Parties’, ‘Kick in the Eye’,’Stigmata Martyr’, and the great, epic, pillar of ether and brooding, psychedelia, that is 'Bela Lugosi's Dead.'


So, an end but an end with one final sonorous statement. Behold ‘Go Away White’.

Watch as night comes, as day breaks and the light . . . pours . . . in.

--Adam Gnade

Released on March 4th, 2008 worldwide. Distributed by Red Eye in North America, Cooking Vinyl for the rest of the world. Will also be available as digital download on iTunes (only in North America).

[Anaesthesine]

I care, I care!

Thanks for the info.

I saw them ages ago at the Hammerstein in NYC, and I was a bit worried that a band as legendary as Bauhaus would let me down live, after all those years. I was blown away - they were phenomenal. When they played "Bella Lugosi's Dead," a woman next to me screamed out "I've waited my whole life for this moment" and the crowd went completely nuts! It was an incredible night, they were an incredible band.

Goth is such an impossible musical genre to get right, because it tends to be shallow, pretentious and humorless. Bauhaus were one of the few bands who could really make it work. "Endless Summer of the Damned" and "Too Much 21st Century" sound promising. I hope "Go Away White" is a masterpiece, like one last kiss before dying...

Sorry, old habits die hard.

[Corrissey]

Originally Posted by Anaesthesine

I care, I care!

Goth is such an impossible musical genre to get right, because it tends to be shallow, pretentious and humorless. Bauhaus were one of the few bands who could really make it work.

Sorry, old habits die hard.

I care too and I'll be buying it!!
ana, love reading your posts -everywhere- you always sum things up perfectly

[Anaesthesine]

Originally Posted by Corrissey

I care too and I'll be buying it!!
ana, love reading your posts -everywhere- you always sum things up perfectly

Thanks Corrissey -

Now I feel all warm and fuzzy.

[fuckfrankie]

i cannot wait. one only hopes it will be as good as Throbbing Gristle's come back album.

even if it's not, i'll hopefully get to see them live this time out since i've missed the last two comeback tours

[skellngtn]

FF-
doesn't look good for seeing them again:
“We were getting along really well, but there was an incident that occurred,” drummer Kevin Haskins tells Billboard.com, declining to elaborate further. “Some of us just felt that we didn’t want to carry on as a working unit.”

I saw them on the first go-round of the Resurrection tour and passed on the NIN tour so i guess that's it for me! (I'll just have to go back to seeing them individually like i did thru the latter 80s + 90s). One wonders what "the incident" was and who's to blame THIS time (my moneys on Peter).

[skellngtn]

whoa. it has (supposedly) leaked.

DL-ing now... post review tomorrow.

[Corrissey]

Originally Posted by skellngtn

whoa. it has (supposedly) leaked.

DL-ing now... post review tomorrow.

Good news! I can't wait to hear this album!!

"So, an end but an end with one final sonorous statement. Behold ‘Go Away White’. Watch as night comes, as day breaks and the light . . . pours . . . in."

[JoyDiv007]

I'm also looking forward to hearing this.

[skellngtn]

It's raw... the first tracks seem as if they could be tracks cut from the 1st and 2nd album and were my favorites on first listening. Danny is very apparent throughout these. There were a few times early on i thought, "how very Tones on Tail-ish"... simple, guitar driven.
Side 2, as it were, slows down the proceedings. "Saved" is a minimal funeral dirge, and will appeal to those who like those sorts of things, and "Mirror Remains" is a siamese twin to "Of Lillies and Remains" with background coughs and twinkling piano. "Black Stone Heart " picks things back up finally and gives the album it's title... and has one of the guys whistling with handclaps. Upbeat, almost.
"The Dog's a Vapour" will be familiar to the millions upon millions who bought the Heavy Metal 2 soundtrack. It's been redone, from what I can tell, but is essentially the same as the soundtrack version. And lastly, "Zikir" is a... strange drone with Peter intoning "Loves me, loves me not".

It does sound like they went into the studio and kicked these out. Luckily they did or these might never have seen the light of day if things ended as badly as they seem with them. Sad that most of us won't get to see any of these done live. That being said, I enjoyed it a great deal( as much as one can over Frosted Mini Wheats at 6am). Let the "i love it/i hate it/ meh-ing" begin.

[Corrissey]

Originally Posted by skellngtn

It's raw... the first tracks seem as if they could be tracks cut from the 1st and 2nd album and were my favorites on first listening. Danny is very apparent throughout these. There were a few times early on i thought, "how very Tones on Tail-ish"... simple, guitar driven.
Side 2, as it were, slows down the proceedings. "Saved" is a minimal funeral dirge, and will appeal to those who like those sorts of things, and "Mirror Remains" is a siamese twin to "Of Lillies and Remains" with background coughs and twinkling piano. "Black Stone Heart " picks things back up finally and gives the album it's title... and has one of the guys whistling with handclaps. Upbeat, almost.
"The Dog's a Vapour" will be familiar to the millions upon millions who bought the Heavy Metal 2 soundtrack. It's been redone, from what I can tell, but is essentially the same as the soundtrack version. And lastly, "Zikir" is a... strange drone with Peter intoning "Loves me, loves me not".

It does sound like they went into the studio and kicked these out. Luckily they did or these might never have seen the light of day if things ended as badly as they seem with them. Sad that most of us won't get to see any of these done live. That being said, I enjoyed it a great deal( as much as one can over Frosted Mini Wheats at 6am). Let the "i love it/i hate it/ meh-ing" begin.

Thanks for the review, skellngtn. I can't wait to listen.
And Mini Wheats are my fave cereal

[Chaud]

Ok Guys... i think you can have an advance of the album right now xD
http://rapidshare.com/files/84493175...Away_White.rar

^_^ it's only 4 people that can't wait xD!!

[Amatis]

It's a shame they're not touring again, they were really fantastic live.

Definitely looking forward to the album though.

[skellngtn]

enjoying the new album more and more the more i listen.

on a related note, an audience recording of a 2006 show has surfaced- Lignano Rock Festival - Lignano Sabbiadoro (Italy) (14.08.2006). it's notable because they played 2 songs off the "as-yet unreleased" album, as well as Joy Division's "Transmission". It can be found at:
http://oceanico71.blogspot.com/

[sdsuedehead]

i actually think its really good, not bad after being away for so long. it is sad they wont be touring this release but i saw them 3 times since reforming a few years back so at least i have that.

im SUPER happy that Love & Rockets are back together and playing again. lets hope they do a tour once Coachella is all done.

[skellngtn]

sdsuedehead-
thanks for the heads up. i hadn't heard that L+R was reforming . let's hope they keep it going after Coachella since a Bauhaus tour is out of the question.
Hmmmmmm....Bauhaus tours together, quickly records an album and suddenly call it quits. THEN, Love and Rockets magically reform and start doing live stuff. Peter, what did you say or do to piss the others off?

[Claudia2006]

Who else has bought this today and what do you think? (Or has everyone else besides me had it for weeks?) So far I like it but it'll take a few more listens to give it a proper critique. I've heard a few appropriately sinister sounding Peter Murphy warbles that he only seems to do in Bauhaus songs, so that makes me happy.

I can't wait to put the sticker that came with it on my car - I miss the Bela Lugosi's Dead sticker I had about 8 cars ago.