Gloomy lyrics, dark musical arrangements, deep baritone voice, and an obsession over death & love with a frightening passion. Add Cave's hefty amount of post-punk experimentalism and you have Murder Ballads,
The watermark for all post-punk roots music. This features the late Jeffrey Lee Pierce's swamped-out brand of roiling rock, swaggerific hell-bound blues, and gothic country.
This album is a complete realization of the Echo & The Bunnymen sound: the driving rhythms, punkadelic guitars and Ian's harrowing voice atop it all....and it's only their first.
