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Echo & The Bunnymen Ready Career Retrospective And New Album
04/18/2001 7:00 AM, Yahoo! Music
Neal Weiss
(4/18/01, 7 a.m. ET) -- New Wave-era psychedelic band Echo & the Bunnymen is set to return to the spotlight with two releases--a four-disc career retrospective and a new studio album.
Crystal Days (1979-1999), due July 17 from Rhino Records, is a 71-song collection that offers an overview of the group's two-decade existence. The effort amasses material as early as 1979 (a version of "Monkeys," with cult figure Julian Cope on keyboards) and as recent as the Bunnymen's last studio album, 1999's What Are You Going To Do With Your Life?
Hits like "The Cutter," "The Killing Moon," "Seven Seas," and "Bring On The Dancing Horses" are represented, as are live covers of such rock classics as Bob Dylan 's "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue," the Doors ' "Soul Kitchen," and the Velvet Underground 's "Run, Run, Run."
Frontman Ian McCulloch, in the album's liner notes, explained that at least one live show captured here, from London's Royal Albert Hall in 1983, was a truly remarkable experience. "We conjured up whatever we conjured up that night and it was untouchable," he writes. "People connected with us. No other group in the history of the world could have created that magic that night. I really believe that. Pure and spiritual. We were the best band of all time."
Two months earlier, the group will issue Flowers, its first studio effort for New York-based independent label spinART. The album, due May 22, is the third by the group since founding members McCulloch and Will Sergeant reunited under the Bunnymen banner. Flowers features 11 tracks, including first single "It's Alright."
Plans for an American tour are expected to be announced shortly.
-- Neal Weiss, Los Angeles
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