SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES – Join Hands LP rock frenetic narration delivers stream-of-consciousness reveries

frenetic narration delivers stream-of-consciousness reveries that follow their musical descent into the depths of chaotic dissonance and back

encompassing fuzzed out garage numbers

the Ramones would ape the two-note guitar solo gag in “Boredom” for their own on “I Wanna Be Sedated

whether in Cleveland or in the thriving downtown New York scene: “We fully expected to be a mammoth success on the level of Roxy Music

Spiral Scratch still has the power to rush you off your feet

SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES – Join Hands LP rock frenetic narration delivers stream-of-consciousness reveries180 gram vinyl. Highly recommended. Remastered and cut at half speed. 'Join Hands' was the second Siouxie and the Banshees album and found them still in a very bleak place with songs based around the First World War. It also features the band's harrowing version of the Lords Prayer. The hits started on the subsequent 'Kaleidoscope' but this one shows the band at their most darkly brutal.