Multi-instrumentalist Martin McCarrick and guitarist Jon Klein joined Siouxsie and the Banshees, with the quintet heading to the studio to lay down the tracks that would become 1988's Peepshow. Upon its release, it was highly praised by critics for its collage of sound, which included orchestration, bouncing tracks, reverse instrumentation, and intermixed styles, such as pop, rock, and reggae,
Peepshow would be the Banshees last album to receive a sales accreditation, silver on the BPI. While follow-up album, 1991's Superstition, and their final (to date) 1995's The Rapture would chart in the top fifty in the UK, as well as be critically acclaimed, they would both fail to meet the sales heights of prior releases.
Starting up the record...or in my case, CD, Peek-A-Boo sets a very unique stage from the drumming, the aforementioned reverse instrumentation. It's a quirky song, but at the same time, kind of spooky. It sets the tone of a fun and different experience, which for the most part Peepshow delivers on.
I had to reserve myself because if I were adding songs to my shuffle simply for getting my toes tapping, I would have added all of them. However, these ultimately wouldn't be memorable. In fact, even writing this paragraph, those memories are all but gone.
What I did add to the shuffle was Peek-A-Boo, Carousel, Ornaments Of Gold, and Turn To Stone. I felt these represented the best of what the album had to offer.
Overall, what makes Peepshow unique, is also what makes it a bit problematic. When you have so many different styles incorporated from song to song, nothing flows. This doesn't sound like an album that a concept was conceived from start to finish. Rather, a mishmash of ideas, that while good, don't transition well into the track which follows.
Tomorrow, things wrap up in our little self proclaimed contest of Siouxsie and the Banshees versus The Cure with the final album in the mix the latter's 1989 Disintegration. From there, a final victor of the 80's will be crowned.
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