SMITHS - s/t LP punk blues At times a siren that

At times a siren that rises and rises above the cacophony (‘Black Mire’

the Bad Seeds have never sounded more cheerful than in the sloshed group sing-along of the Velvets' "All Tomorrow's Parties" and the cheeky

first single and album opener 'Delusion' demonstrates a shift from the hardened psych pop of earlier records toward more prog and heavy metal

It sounds at times as though McClelland (who is Center Negative) could be a crazy skeptic

something that is honest to its role as the idiot savant of rock subgenres

SMITHS - s/t LP punk blues At times a siren thatThe Smiths must have sounded like nothing else in 1983. The band were a live tour de force but also poetic and lyrical. The Smiths was their murky debut and contains several future classics. Match the Byrds like guitar playing and a particular kind of Manchester melancholy with a vocalist who sounds like a demented seal and there you have it. Total brilliance.