Track Listing
1. Dominion/Mother Russia
2. Flood I
3. Lucretia My Reflection
4. 1959
5. This Corrosion
6. Flood II
7. Driven Like The Snow
8. Never Land (a fragment)
9. Torch (CD/MC only)
10. Colours (CD only)
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | Cinram Logistics | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | AAD |
Album Notes
Sisters Of Mercy: Andrew Eldritch (vocals, guitar, keyboards, programming); Patricia Morrison (vocals, guitar, keyboards). Producers: Andrew Eldritch, Larry Alexander, Jim Steinman.Engineers: Larry Alexander, Roy Neave, Andrew Eldritch.Long before Trent Reznor brought his brand of densely textured, hard-hitting Goth rock to the world, The Sisters Of Mercy were creating the mould with albums such as FLOODLAND. Here, front man Andrew Eldritch and company mix styles with a dark and gloomy palette. Songs are built with punishing and/or danceable drum machine tracks, guitars that alternately moan and crash, touches of '80s keyboards, and Eldritch's deeply resonant, undertaker voice, for a sound that made the Sisters one of the leading lights of the '80s Goth movement. "Dominion/Mother Russia," the album's opener, presages industrial goth with its epic, thunderous rhythm track, wiry guitar lines and a chorus that treads that fine line between dance pop and death metal. Especially notable here is the inclusion of the band's best known single "This Corrosion," a multi-layered goth-pop gem held together by a eerie back-up choir and a driving dance beat. Though the stylistic focus of the album varies from the chilling piano balladry of "1959," to the battering ram, chamber-of-horrors hypnosis of "Lucretia My Reflection," FLOODLAND is probably the band's most cohesive and accessible album.
Editorial Reviews
Ranked #43 in AP's Top 99 Of '85-'95 - ...FLOODLAND remains the blueprint for first-time goth rockers....Riding in on lolloping percussion, crashing out on funereal drumbeats, FLOODLAND employs everything from the kitchen sink onwards, a vampire bat out of gothic-rock hell, and the occasional presence of producer Jim Steinman only adds to the chaos...
Alternative Press (07/01/1995)
Included in AP's 10 Essential Goth Albums.
Alternative Press (11/01/2001)
Included in AP's 10 Essential Goth Albums.Alternative Press (7/95, p.87) - Ranked #43 in AP's Top 99 Of '85-'95 - ...FLOODLAND remains the blueprint for first-time goth rockers....Riding in on lolloping percussion, crashing out on funereal drumbeats, FLOODLAND employs everything from the kitchen sink onwards, a vampire bat out of gothic-rock hell, and the occasional presence of producer Jim Steinman only adds to the chaos...
Alternative Press (11/01/2001)
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