Siberia (Echo & the Bunnymen album)

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This article is about the Echo & the Bunnymen Album. For the Lights album, see Siberia (Lights album).

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Siberia is the tenth studio album by Echo & the Bunnymen. It received mixed reviews and was consequently the band's first album to not enter into the UK Top 75 Albums Chart.

The track "Of a Life" has the line "I want a song to learn and sing", which name-checks the band's 1985 compilation album Songs to Learn and Sing.

Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic66/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Guardian[3]
NME(3/10) [4]
Pitchfork Media(6.7/10) [5]
Slant Magazine [6]
Spin(favourable) [7]
Stylus Magazine(B) [8]
Uncut [9]

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Siberia received an average score of 66, based on 17 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[1]

Track listing

All tracks written by Ian McCulloch and Will Sergeant.

  1. "Stormy Weather" – 4:24
  2. "All Because of You Days" – 5:44
  3. "Parthenon Drive" – 5:11
  4. "In the Margins" – 5:06
  5. "Of a Life" – 3:44
  6. "Make Us Blind" – 4:00
  7. "Everything Kills You" – 4:17
  8. "Siberia" – 4:56
  9. "Sideways Eight" – 3:16
  10. "Scissors in the Sand" – 5:29
  11. "What If We Are?" – 5:09

Personnel

Echo & the Bunnymen

with:

  • Peter Wilkinson - bass
  • Paul Fleming - keyboards
  • Simon Finley - drums
  • Hillary Browning - cello on "Everything Kills You" and "What If We Are?"
  • Kate Evans, Martin Richardson - violin on "Everything Kills You" and "What If We Are?"
  • John Robert Shepley - viola on "Everything Kills You" and "What If We Are?"
  • Mimi McCulloch - tambourine on "In the Margins"

References

  1. ^ a b "Critic Reviews for Siberia". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
  2. ^ "Siberia - Echo & the Bunnymen - Songs, Reviews, Credits - AllMusic". Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  3. ^ "Siberia review". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  4. ^ Siberia review". 17 September 2005. p. 58. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  5. ^ "Siberia review". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  6. ^ "Siberia review" Archived 17 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine. Slant Magazine. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  7. ^ "Siberia review". Spin. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  8. ^ "Siberia review". Stylus Magazine. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  9. ^ Siberia review. October 2005. p. 94. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)

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