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Go Away White

EMAILPRINTby Bauhaus

Bauhaus reviews
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8.0 User Score:

Generally favorable reviews

Based on 20 critic reviews
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Album Info

Label: Bauhaus Music

Release Date: 04 March 2008

Discs: 1 disc

Genre(s): Rock, Punk, Alternative

Summary

The first album in over 20 years for the British rock band is also their last.

What The Critics Said

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

91

The Onion (A.V. Club)

Go Away White is more than a swansong. It's a minor masterpiece that proves Bauhaus has been nicely preserved.

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90

Alternative Press

The proceedings sound loose, yet focused but never disappointing. [Apr 2008, p.160]

80

Filter

It's so extravagant, trecherous and cocksure that it could almost make Interpol sound like a pleasant chamber quartet. [Mar 2008, p.94]

80

Billboard

It picks up right where Bauhaus left off: a wet dream for original fans and a blast of recognition for the newly eye-lined.

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80

All Music Guide

Go Away White sounds like the four were trying one last time to reclaim the idea of Bauhaus as band and ethos from all the many limiting clichés heaped on it, something which the album title, taken from the song "Black Stone Heart," slyly hints at.

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75

Pitchfork

Bauhaus can hold their head high, mission accomplished; but with no victory-lap tour, no more studio albums, and several awesome new tunes pointing at an un-actualized future, it all feels rather anti-climatic and lacking closure.

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70

PopMatters

The end result is an album that’s one half decent (even if it is a bit indebted to Ash, Haskins, and Haskins’ post-Bauhaus career) and one half incredible.

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70

Spin

A tastefully matured Bauhaus produce enough fractured guitar and howling melodrama to wake the undead.

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60

The Guardian

Their comeback kicks off in ebullient fashion, with little of the inconsistency that once overshadowed their importance.

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60

Rolling Stone

Like true vampires, Bauhaus still manage to pull off being melodramatic and wickedly energetic even in old age. R.I.P. again.

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60

musicOMH.com

Go Away White is an unevenly inspired valediction.

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60

Hartford Courant

While the new material will hardly tarnish the band's legacy, it won't add much, either.

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60

Drowned In Sound

Those aforementioned past tense references are telling, because that’s exactly where Go Away White sounds as if it belongs: in the past.

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60

Under The Radar

It's disappointing that this epilogue couldn't have been crafted with more care. [Spring 2008, p.82]

60

Mojo

Preposterous, but this time knowingly so. [May 2008, p.114]

60

Uncut

It sounds alive and kicking almost to its own detriment. [Mar 2008, p.83]

58

Entertainment Weekly

White doesn't quite make good on that potential, the guitar fuzz is too restrained, while Peter Murphy's vocals evoke David Bowie doing funny grandpa voices. [7 Mar 2008, p.93]

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40

NOW Magazine

Sadly, this is a posthumous offering that sounds half-finished and, considering they must have known this would be their final statement, like a missed opportunity.

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40

Q Magazine

A quarter of a century on, that still holds, right down to the same old ponderous rhythms, Daniel Ash's screaming guitar fuzz and Peter Murphy's ridiculously portentous vocals. [Apr 2008, p.102]

40

Observer Music Monthly

Frontman Pete Murphy overdoes the drama, leaving little space for the songs to breathe, while his colleagues fail to access the mystique that at their peak, in the early Eighties, served to distinguish them from goth's also-rans.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this album is 8.0 (out of 10) based on 15 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Caie L. gave it a7:
Bauhaus has ranked in my top 5 of all time since I first heard them in 1987. I was naturally excited when I found out they were making a new album. This album has most of the hallmarks of Bauhaus but it is missing something, actually it has too much of something. Bauhuas, like their namesake, focused on function over form, stripping away the frivolity to produce a stark black and white soundscape. There are echoes of that for sure on this album, Saved, Mirror Remains and Black Stone Heart exhibit some of their former imagination with disjointed melodies and Daniel Ash's signature guitar, and sax work. As a whole it's a decent album, but take any song off of this album and play it next to Dark Entries, Silent Hedges or Slice of Life and you'll quickly the new songs missing that old Bauhaus magic.

Alessandro gave it a9:
I'm still trying to understand how old I am and where I am. Ah, my child's voice, and this, this is a pc. It' s seems all right, this music may come from some corner in my head or from a incubus. Fan-ta-s-tic.

Bob V gave it an8:
It's good Bauhaus. It's a bunch of old guys, so what can you expect? (I'm an old guy, too) -- it isn't groundbreaking -- that's for sure. It stands up very well with the rest of their (limited) work. I was very pleasantly surprised and the record has gone into my regular rotation. Nice work!

go citizen gave it a9:
For some reason, this CD actually sounds fresh in today's climate. Great music for then and now. This one is going in the jeep this Summer.

Tom F. gave it a9:
This is a brilliant farewell by a great band. It sounds just like where they left off 25 years ago, but with the maturity gained by continuing to make music the whole time. They did not try to modernize the band, or fit the sounds of today. This is pure Bauhaus circa 1980, and true fans couldn't ask for much more.

Robert L. gave it a9:
It's absolutely everything I would have wanted in another bauhaus album - and MORE!! Cheers! PLEASE do another...and another -- UNDEAD!

Wild Animal gave it a9:
How many albums coming out now were done in first takes? That alone gives them a high score from me. They are much more accomplished musicians now and it shows. I love the part mid album about the missing solo! True artists!

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