Go Away White

Go Away White
Studio album by Bauhaus
Released 3 March 2008
Recorded Zircon Skye in Ojai, California, 2006
Genre Gothic rock, post-punk, alternative rock
Length 48:54
Label Bauhaus Music
Producer Bauhaus
Bauhaus chronology
Burning from the Inside
(1983)		 Go Away White
(2008)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
The A.V. Club (favorable) [2]
Pitchfork Media [3]
Crawdaddy! (favorable) [4]
Rolling Stone [5]
SPIN [6]

Go Away White is the fifth and final studio album by British gothic rock band Bauhaus. Released on 3 March 2008, it is the band's first album of new material since 1983. Shortly after the release, the band announced this would be their final record and the end of the band, and that there would be no tour to support the album.

Contents

Recording

Go Away White was recorded in 2006 in 18 days at Zircon Skye in Ojai, California. The band playing together in one room, taking first takes as final cuts. Drummer Kevin Haskins has said in an interview that they "were getting along really well, but there was an incident that occurred". As a result, "some of us just felt that we didn't want to carry on as a working unit". No details on the incident were given.[7]

Bassist David J later described the incident as "a big fight in the studio. We weren't going to carry on, and we were just going to dump the album. We were waiting for Peter [Murphy] to turn up. Our beef was with him. So he comes in, and he does this shocking and brilliant thing. Pure zen. He comes in, and he just spits rose petals in our faces. It just cut through everything. We couldn't argue with that. So we just went in and continued recording."[8]

Peter Murphy described the album as "spontaneous" and while it doesn't sound much as what they did in the past, it has some "positives" and "playfulness" to it.[9]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Daniel Ash, David J, Kevin Haskins and Peter Murphy. 

No. Title Length
1. "Too Much 21st Century"   3:53
2. "Adrenalin"   5:39
3. "Undone"   4:46
4. "International Bulletproof Talent"   4:02
5. "Endless Summer of the Damned"   4:44
6. "Saved"   6:27
7. "Mirror Remains"   4:58
8. "Black Stone Heart"   4:32
9. "The Dog's a Vapour"   6:49
10. "Zikir"   3:04

Live Concert Footage (available with iTunes version of album)

  1. "Bela Lugosi's Dead" from Coachella Festival 2005 (opening song)
  2. "Dark Entries" from Coachella Festival 2005 (closing song)

Personnel

Production

Artwork

The front cover, by Scott Saw[10], is a photo by Dominique Duplaa[10] of Bethesda Terrace, the angel of the healing waters in New York City's Central Park.

External links

References

  1. ^ Go Away White at Allmusic
  2. ^ The A.V. Club review
  3. ^ Pitchfork Media review
  4. ^ Crawdaddy! review
  5. ^ Rolling Stone review
  6. ^ SPIN review
  7. ^ Cohen, Jonathan. "Bauhaus Bowing Out With New Album", Billboard.com, December 04, 2007. Accessed February 23, 2008.
  8. ^ Scanlon, Kevin. "Bauhaus' David J. Talks Silver for Gold", LA Weekly, February 28, 2008. Accessed February 17, 2010.
  9. ^ "Peter Murphy (Bauhaus) - exclusive interview on postwave.gr, February 2008"
  10. ^ a b "Go Away White". Discogs. http://www.discogs.com/release/1264485. Retrieved 2008-05-08. 
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