Go Away White - Bauhaus
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 15 Ratings

  • Summary: The first album in over 20 years for the British rock band is also their last.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 20
  2. Negative: 0 out of 20
  1. Go Away White is more than a swansong. It's a minor masterpiece that proves Bauhaus has been nicely preserved.
  2. 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.
  3. Those aforementioned past tense references are telling, because that’s exactly where Go Away White sounds as if it belongs: in the past.
  4. It's disappointing that this epilogue couldn't have been crafted with more care. [Spring 2008, p.82]

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 9
  3. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. GropiusWalter
    10
    Great...what was the incident that canceled the touring?
  2. ChrisW.
    10
    Brilliant! As vital as anything they have ever done. Alas, even though they are no more, welcome back!
  3. BobV
    8
    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! Expand
  4. CaieL.
    7
    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. Expand

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