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Vinyl LP pressing. Digitally remastered edition of the 1981 sophomore album from the British Post-Punk outfit. Produced by Hugh Jones, the album is more richly layered than their debut, fusing the band's atmospheric, affecting sound with a set of accessible yet invigorating songs. At the time, From The Lions Mouth gained great marks from the British music press, but did not break the band beyond its devoted cult of fans. Now it is considered a post-punk classic. A relatively restrained but vital follow-up to the charged and ragged Jeopardy, From The Lions Mouth proves that The Sound's critical stature among the post-punk elite was no fluke. A more robust recording budget allows them to explore a fuller, more cohesive sound, while Adrian Borland's lyrics are even more introspective (a jarring turn after the often political bent of Jeopardy). The bleak nature of the lyrics would be the first true displays of Borland's mercurial nature. While he waged a tragically losing battle with depression for the rest of his life, it's hard not to view this album as an enduring and fascinating document of the beginnings of madness.
From the Lions Mouth Reviews
From the Lions Mouth Reviews
| 24 of 25 people found the following review helpful  Gone but very definitely not forgotten, By This review is from: From the Lions Mouth (Audio CD) Even during the eighties, few of my friends who were passionate music fans seemed to know this extraordinary band. Listening to this album today, it is inconceivable that these guys weren't huge in the US. They had it all: tremendous, tremendous songs, great vocals, a tight band with a great eighties sound. I truly feel that The Sound was as good as Wire, the Blue Aeroplanes, and the Cure at their best, and better than many other excellent bands like Joy Division, Gang of Four, and Echo and the Bunnymen. Anyone doubting me needs to hear these songs. The album starts off with one of my favorite songs by the band, "Winning," which is unlike the suffering laments so popular with bands in the eighties (the chorus goes: "I was going to drown/Then I started swimming/I was going down/Then I started winning"--not exactly Morrissey). The way vocalist Adrian Borland punctuates the word "winning" indicates this isn't wishful thinking, but a resolution... Read more 14 of 15 people found the following review helpful A forgotten post-punk masterpiece, By This review is from: From the Lions Mouth (Audio CD) FROM THE LION'S MOUTH should be one of the most important -- certainly alternative -- albums of the 80's. Unfortunately, The Sound never achieved a cult status on the level of Joy Division, The Smiths or The Pixies (and other "fathers" of alternative), and were therefore confined to obscurity. Of The Sound's early 3 albums, FROM THE LION'S MOUTH is the essential one to own -- a peak sophomore achievement. Their blend of angular guitars, throbbing bass and mimimalist keyboard fills, combined with the late Adrian Borland's intense, emotive vocals created a "sound" that was quite unorthodox yet exciting and intoxicating, particularly for the year 1981. A great album to point to whenever some misguided fool tries to dismiss all 80's music as slick, commercial trash. From the stunning opener "Winning" to the closing, anti-Thatcher-era rant "New Dark Age", this album is simply incredible for its time. Also added as a hidden bonus track: the 1981 non-album single "Hothouse".It's good to... Read more 13 of 14 people found the following review helpful this really is a 'lost classic'..., By mARKst (Edinburgh) - See all my reviews This review is from: From the Lions Mouth (Audio CD) The period 1980 to about 1983 was when I really discovered music as a teenager, I listened to John Peel a lot and started buying all sorts of what was then fairly obscure music. But somehow, despite discovering everything from Joy Division to Gang of Four, Wire to Nick Cave and the of course the Velvet Underground, I never quite got into the Sound. I had one session on tape off John Peel from about 1982, and Annie Nightingale used to play the Sound alongside the Comsat Angels and Echo & the Bunnymen, their direct contemporaries. So now, having finally gotten hold of the newly re-issued LP 'From the Lions Mouth', I can confirm what I was always told - this is a true Lost Classic from the heyday of Post Punk. In terms of complexity, tension and sonic power, this is way ahead of the Bunnymen and U2, and is rivaled only by Joy Division in dark urban poetic savagery tinged with an epic melancholy. Or something like that. Overall, this LP hangs together as a whole, which was a trait... Read more |
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