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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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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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75Bauhaus 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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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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70A tastefully matured Bauhaus produce enough fractured guitar and howling melodrama to wake the undead.
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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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60Their comeback kicks off in ebullient fashion, with little of the inconsistency that once overshadowed their importance.
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60Go Away White is an unevenly inspired valediction.
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40Sadly, 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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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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80It 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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While the new material will hardly tarnish the band's legacy, it won't add much, either.
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70The 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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Go Away White is more than a swansong. It's a minor masterpiece that proves Bauhaus has been nicely preserved.
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It's disappointing that this epilogue couldn't have been crafted with more care. [Spring 2008, p.82]
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The proceedings sound loose, yet focused but never disappointing. [Apr 2008, p.160]
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60Preposterous, but this time knowingly so. [May 2008, p.114]
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60It sounds alive and kicking almost to its own detriment. [Mar 2008, p.83]
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40A 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]
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80It's so extravagant, trecherous and cocksure that it could almost make Interpol sound like a pleasant chamber quartet. [Mar 2008, p.94]
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