Carnival of Souls | |
Type: | studio |
Artist: | Pere Ubu |
Cover: | Carnival of Souls (Pere Ubu album).jpg |
Released: | 2014 |
Genre: | Alternative rock |
Label: | Fire Records[1] |
Producer: | David Thomas |
Prev Title: | Lady from Shanghai |
Prev Year: | 2012 |
Next Title: | 20 Years in a Montana Missile Silo |
Next Year: | 2017 |
Carnival of Souls is an album by the American band Pere Ubu, released in 2014.[2] [3] The title is taken from the 1962 film, for which the band had created an underscore.[4] [2] "Irene" was released as a single.[5]
The album was written while Pere Ubu toured Europe in support of Lady from Shanghai.[6] Darryl Boon joined the band on clarinet.[7] In addition to the film, Pere Ubu was inspired by Van der Graaf Generator's Pawn Hearts.[8]
Record Collector wrote that the album "scrapes up enough sporadic excellence to justify David Thomas’ perseverance in the 21st-century scheme of things." Greil Marcus, in The Believer, thought that the lead track "Golden Surf II" "shoots out like a flood, and then you can ride the wave of transmorgrification that sweeps over the whole album."[9] The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel determined that the band "still challenges itself and its listeners on its unsettling, menacing circus of a latest disc."[10]
AllMusic noted that "'Dr. Faustus', one of the album's most score-like pieces, combines metallic percussion, spare guitars and David Thomas' muttered vocals into something rustic and rickety, yet threatening at a moment's notice."
All songs written and composed by Pere Ubu.
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Side A
Side B