It is almost their ‘Blackstar’… a contemporary rock album with depth and an emotional pull which few bands can achieve.
Rain’s black-velvet melancholy makes it easy to pretend they never left.
Comfortably their finest outing since 1982's Forever Now.
With a cohesive, warm and often melancholy rock drive, the album is blessed with great songs.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.,..,
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 ⏳
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
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.
1 | The Boy That Invented Rock & Roll 3:37 | |
2 | Don't Believe 3:45 | |
3 | You'll Be Mine 4:48 | |
4 | Wrong Train 4:13 | |
5 | This'll Never Be Like Love 5:10 | |
6 | Ash Wednesday 5:37 | |
7 | Come All Ye Faithful 4:23 | |
8 | No-One 4:23 | |
9 | Tiny Hands 3:46 | |
10 | Hide the Medicine 3:46 | |
11 | Turn Your Back on Me 4:14 | |
12 | Stars 3:57 |
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