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Burning Blue Soul
Rock · 1981 · 10 tracks

Burning Blue Soul

The The

A murky, tape-saturated fever dream of post-punk and bedroom psychedelia. Matt Johnson's most raw, skeletal, and hauntingly intimate recording.

August 1981 · 4AD

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A claustrophobic and hallucinatory exploration of solitude, rendered in shades of grey and deep blue.

Tracklist · 10 Tracks
01
Red Cinders in the Sand
02
Song Without an Ending
03
Time Again for the Golden Sunset
04
Icing Up
05
Like a Sun Risin Thru My Garden
06
Out of Control
07
Bugle Boy
08
Delirious
09
The River Flows East in Spring
10
Another Boy Drowning
Moments Worth Waiting For
The way the rhythmic chug of Red Cinders in the Sand dissolves into a swirling vortex of tape delay and grit.
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How does Burning Blue Soul sound next to the rest of The The's catalogue?

Intense+1.4σ

The vocals lean notably further into intense than the rest of the catalogue.

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