The Psychedelic Furs - Made of Rain
Critic Score
Based on 17 reviews
2020 Ratings: #453 / 871
User Score
Based on 103 ratings
2020 Rank: #475
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CRITIC REVIEWS

95
Louder Than War

It is almost their ‘Blackstar’… a  contemporary rock album with depth and an emotional pull which few bands can achieve.

83
Consequence of Sound
Rarely does a classic band come back after so long with this much artistic merit, let alone the ability to recapture the performance quality of their heyday.
83
Entertainment Weekly

Rain’s black-velvet melancholy makes it easy to pretend they never left.

80
Mojo
Those of a certain overcoat are assured a Proustian rush: distorted guitars, windswept austerity and Butler's rasp set to Triple Action Strepsil.
80
Q Magazine

Comfortably their finest outing since 1982's Forever Now.

80
Classic Rock

With a cohesive, warm and often melancholy rock drive, the album is blessed with great songs.

80
Spill Magazine

The Psychedelic Furs haven’t lost any of their bite during their long and self-imposed recording exile, and perhaps with Made of Rain, they quite possibly have reached new heights.

80
Uncut
The existential fatigue is never draining – the Furs have always cushioned their art-rock anesthetics with beautiful melodies.
80
musicOMH
On their first album in 29 (!) years, The Psychedelic Furs have done the impossible, and made an album that not only matches much of their previous work, but beats it.
70
Pitchfork
The British band’s first new album in 29 years is a rare commodity: a comeback record that’s refreshingly free of nostalgic gestures.
70
American Songwriter
There are enough resilient moments to make this a welcome, if long overdue, addition to the group’s impressive catalog.
70
AllMusic

It may not be Talk Talk Talk, Pt. 2 or Forever Now again, but it proves the Furs still have plenty of life left in them, and it's always nice to hear Richard Butler's voice no matter what the setting.

60
The Independent

Made of Rain is a welcome return to the Furs’ classic blend of aggression, tender melody and brooding ambience. But it’s darker than they’ve been before.

60
The Arts Desk

The Furs seem well short of the end of their particular road on the evidence of this album and it’s a fine return for a band that has already left its mark.

60
PopMatters

As if they have poured all the beautiful chaos they could muster into the one brilliant track; the Furs fall back to catch their breath and never really recover. That is not to say the rest of Made of Rain is poor. It's not, and it contains at least one additional near-classic.

PietroG
80

The comeback (or "new road") that I was expecting

Doofy
73

Actually the closest I’ve heard anyone get to successfully channeling the spirit of latter career Bowie into the one album.

As comebacks go it’s solid if not quite spectacular.

wless
92

i love the psychedelic furs, and until now, forever now has been my favorite album of theirs. their return, though? fuckin amazing. wholly consistent and it really places me right in the 1980s. "ash wednesday," "come all ye faithful," "hide the medicine," gosh.,..,

QueenOfDenmark
63

The Boy That Invented Rock & Roll ~ ★★★☆☆
Don't Believe ~ ★★★☆☆
You'll Be Mine ~ ★★★☆☆
Wrong Train ~ ★★★☆☆
This'll Never Be Like Love ~ ★★★☆☆
Ash Wednesday ~ ★★★☆☆
Come All Ye Faithful ~ ★★★☆☆
No-One ~ ★★★★☆
Tiny Hands ~ ★★★☆☆
Hide the Medicine ~ ★★★★☆
Turn Your Back on Me ~ ★★★☆☆
Stars ~ ★★★☆☆

⏳ new & improved: time-weighted score ⏳

mikehermida
76

This is my first proper introduction to the Psychedelic Furs and I suppose a better place to start would have been, you know, at the start but I had heard Don't Believe through a Spotify Made for you playlist and liked it. This album starts off brilliantly and is a very front loaded album.

It has a real Blackstar feel about it with saxophone piercing through the more polished veneer of the album to create something pleasantly jarring.

The songwriting is really acerbic and cutting in places ... read more

73

O álbum flui num patamar 85/90 até a faixa 9, quando me parece perder um tanto em unidade estética. Audições futuras poderão me proporcionar nova compreensão, mas fiquei bastante frustrado com o q ouvi dali até o final.

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Added on: February 15, 2020