It’s been good to be reunited with a vinyl copy of ‘Kaleidoscope’,
always seeming as it does the preferred medium to experience, as originally
& best, albums of its era (even if they were often transferred to cassette,
and as often listened-to via that format, for the purposes of portability).
Always enjoyed, time has come to prove that it was the first of the sequence of
three favourite Siouxsie albums, quite different in sound from the Banshees’
two previous LPs (due to a radical change in group personnel), as had been
previewed with the ‘Happy House’ & ‘Christine’ singles that preceded the release
of ‘Kaleidoscope’, including even songs that didn’t feature the guitars that
had so defined, along with Siouxsie’s voice, the band’s sound up to that point.
With those
singles, & particularly the quietly menacing ‘Tenant’, ‘Trophy’, ‘Hybrid’, the synthesized ‘Red
Light’, the swooning ‘Desert Kisses’ & searing ‘Skin’, it’s an enduringly
wonderful collection, of course an absolutely essential purchase & addition
to the still relatively small but increasingly perfectly-formed collection.
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