BAUHAUS - CRACKLE (2LP)

Bauhaus Crackle on 2LP

Bauhaus are the founding fathers of goth rock, creating a minimalistic, overbearingly gloomy style of post-punk rock driven by jagged guitar chords and cold, distant synthesizers. Throughout their brief career, the band explored all the variations on their bleak musical ideas, adding elements of glam rock, experimental electronic rock, funk and heavy metal.

And now their 1998 compilation Crackle has finally made it onto vinyl. The tracks have been re-sequenced for the format and there’s a special substitution of an unreleased hybrid mix of “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” featuring a 1982 studio vocal over a live backing track. The two disc set is packaged in a gatefold sleeve and, with under 20 minutes playing time per side, the cut is loud with minimum compression.

Bauhaus Crackle Track Listing:

1.  Double Dare
2.  In The Flat Field
3.  The Sanity Assassin
4.  The Passion Of Lovers
5.  She’s in Parties
6.  Kick In The Eye
7.  Ziggy Stardust
8.  Dark Entries
9.  Hollow Hills
10. Mask
11. Silent Hedges
12. Bela Lugosi’s Dead (Tomb Raider)
13. Terror Couple Kill Colonel
14. Spirit
15. Burning From The Inside
16. Crowds