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Floodland - Silver Label Series - Sealed

THE SISTERS OF MERCY Floodland (Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab Silver Label Series special limited edition 8-track LP mastered on the Gain 2 Ultra Analog System. This edition of their classic 1987 album improves the record's splendid dynamiccontrasts, low-end thrust, expansive dimensionality, and moody atmospherics. Picture sleeve with original cover artwork, individually gold-foil numbered & factory sealed. Recommended)

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Release Year 2022 - 2 years ago
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Format vinyl LP album (LP record)
Record Label Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
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Product Catalogue No MOFI1-021
Music Genre Rock, Gothic
Country Comes from USA Comes from 'USA'
 
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MEAT LOAF PRODUCER JIM STEINMAN AND NEW YORK CHORAL SOCIETY AMONG COLLABORATORS ON VAST-REACHING LP

The Sisters of Mercy emerged from a brief hiatus and lineup overhaul in spectacularly grand fashion on Floodland, an epic album that stands as the group's commercial breakthrough as well as one of the period's monumental productions. Having witnessed his bandmates leave, singer Andrew Eldritch recruited bassist Patricia Morrison, utilized a groundbreaking drum machine, and hooked up with Meat Loaf collaborator Jim Steinman to attain a glorious, bombastic, and irrepressible marriage of gothic rock and sumptuous balladry.

Side One
1. Dominion/Mother Russia
2. Flood I
3. Lucretia My Reflection
4. 1959

Side Two
1. This Corrosion
2. Flood II
3. Driven Like the Snow
4. Never Land (A Fragment)

Mastered on our world-renowned mastering system and pressed at RTI, this Silver Label LP improves the record's splendid dynamic contrasts, low-end thrust, expansive dimensionality, and moody atmospherics. Steinman's unforgettable sonic contributions finally receive proper due in the form of towering choruses and operatic heft. The group's signature epic "The Corrosion," described by Eldritch as a narrative about "power in the face of misery," sounds downright staggering, with an awe-inspiring performance by the New York Chorale Society and blooming classicism.

Throughout, the Sisters of Mercy traverse myriad styles in breaking down goth-rock conventions. As on the band's noisier debut First and Last and Always, brooding emotions, nocturnal episodes, and dim sentiments gloss over the songwriting. Yet there's a colossal amplification of evocative spirituality, delicate accents and anthemic riffs that combine with funky drum-machine beats and visceral tension to yield music that dares listeners not to dance and/or lift their hands skyward.

Rhythms play as large a role as the leader's trademark stentorian vocals, with thundering grooves and crashing percussion illuminating incisive lyrics and industrial-tinted scenery. Whether felt via the dramatic waves of "Lucretia My Reflection," balladic sweep of "1959," or charging protest of "Dominion/Mother Russia," Floodland is a touchstone, topped off by iconic cover art that fits in with today's vampire-obsessed society as well as it did upon release in 1987.

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Recording Artist The Sisters Of Mercy
Product Title Floodland - Silver Label Series - Sealed
Product Information The Sisters Of Mercy Floodland - Silver Label Series - Sealed USA vinyl LP album (LP record).
Language All tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.
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