Name: Floodland
Brand: The Sisters of Mercy

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

5101175802

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2007-07-23

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Supplier GB

Warner Music Group

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5051011758027

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

0825646077014

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2018-06-15

1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

The Sisters of Mercy

Genre GB

New Wave / Post Punk

Label GB

Rhino

While the goth scene in England was picking up commercial steam in the mid-'80s, the Sisters of Mercy may have seemed quiet, but they roared back with 1987's Floodland. Opening with the driving two-part hymn Dominion / Mother Russia, Sisters leader Andrew Eldritch (along with bassist Patricia Morrison) creates a black soundscape that is majestic and vast. While the earlier Sisters releases were noisy, sometimes harsh affairs, Floodland is filled with lush production (thanks to Meat Loaf writer / producer Jim Steinman and the New York Choral Society) and lyric imagery that is both scary and glorious. The slower tracks, like Flood and 1959, are some of the best ethereal sounds goth has to offer, and the downright regal This Corrosion is one of the best songs of the genre. A definite milestone.

CD - Newly remastered with 4 bonus tracks and housed in a foldout digipack sleeve with new liner notes.

Floodland

Music GB