Echo & The Bunnymen, the group we knew from post-punk and new wave classics like ‘The Killing Moon’, ‘The Cutter’, ‘Seven Seas’ or ‘Lips Like Sugar’, returns with ‘Apples For Isaac’, their first album of unreleased songs since ‘Meteorites’ (2014), that is, 12 years.
Those from Liverpool have been putting off the album for years, between the pandemic and the usual perfectionism of Ian McCulloch, who wanted the lyrics to be, in his own words, “cryptically important.” The result is an album recorded with Blondie drummer Clem Burke, who died last year, and dedicated to his memory.
The first preview, ‘Brussels Is Haunted’, recovers the drama and melancholic epic that made Echo & The Bunnymen one of the most influential British rock bands of the 80s. It’s not going to dethrone ‘The Killing Moon’, but it doesn’t seem like it intends to either.
