Release Date: 30 June, 1998
Audio CD
Tracks
- Mad Eyed Screamer
- So Unreal
- But Not Them
- Wild Thing
- Thumb
- Morning Dawning
- Inoa'ole
- Ice House
- Dancing on Glass
- Gecko
- Sky Train
- Festival of Colours
- Miss the Girl
- Strutting Rooster
- Flesh
- Hot Springs in the Snow
- Weathercade
- Right Now
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Rating 4.5
Creatures CreateBeing a music collector is so much easier in the new millenium. With "Bestiary" a Creatures fan can get all on one CD that, in the 80s and 90s, I spent so much time and money trying to painstakingly collect (on vinyl imports only, of course).
"Bestiary" brings home to Creatures aficionados the band's first release ("Feast"), an album reeking of Hawaiian innuendo and Polynesian fantasy. Each track is a refreshing and vast departure from the dark doldrums going on in the Banshees camp at this time (with the exception of "Strutting Rooster" which I always found a little too jarring for casual listening). Siouxsie and Budgie really hold their own on "Feast".
"Feast" and the remaining tracks on "Bestiary" are equally as creative and arty, while at the same time listenable and catchy. Highlights include the ghostly "Thumb", "Inoa'ole", the geeked out "Mad Eyed Screamer", and the colorful "Gecko". "Bestiary" closes with the incredible "Weathercade", which geniusly sounds like the eerie clam of an approaching thunderstorm, and "Right Now", a jazzy New Orleans Salsa mix of trumpets and vocals that sounds like nothing else Sioux ever put out.
Plus, the cover and inlay photos are super hot. Great-sounding collection, with a retro gemThis CD has the first Creatures song I ever heard, the delirious "Right Now," which if I recall dates back to 1983. This Las Vegas-like number sounds sort of like what Siouxsie and Budgie might do if they were to lure Frank Sinatra into some type of bizarre collaboration. Siouxsie kicks off the song in a tense, husky warble that soon explodes into an all-out swing dance, with bongos and a brass section that could have come straight out of the 1960's.
The rest of the generous program includes great tracks like "Thumb," "Wild Thing" and "Dancing on Glass," and one of my faves, "Strutting Rooster" with its wild, incessant percussion. The sound quality is excellent, as is usually the case on the Creatures' recordings, allowing Siouxsie's beacon-like voice and Budgie's brilliant drum work to come through loud and clear.
I might slightly prefer their previous disc, Boomerang (and can't explain why), but this one has nothing to complain about. Besides, it has "Right Now" -- and right now I think I'll go listen to it, perhaps with a martini in hand.far edgeterribly fascinating and soothing tracks with a master percussionist and his visionary goddess on magical vocals.So far out there and so enduring. |
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