CLICK BUTTON BELOW TO PURCHASE "ANCIENT". £10.00 GBP inc P&P.In coming to a band like Siiiii it is important to understand that any comparisons made are simply done with the benefit of retrospective illumination, helping identify who they are similar to, but you mustnt think that influenced their creations. Siiiii were recording and gigging during the original Goth phase and the reason theyre unique among all those other unique bands is because they were in on the birth. Their ideas were solely their own, nobody elses. And just as we can look at Ausgang, Sex Gang, Danse Society or March Violets and see how they all bristled with their own characteristics (as opposed to, say, UK Decay and Bauhaus who, having already existed in a different form, had been partly shaped by what they saw in other bands which helped free their true capabilities and allowed them to glow brightly), so we will hear Siiiii and marvel. What I can tell you is that if you collect Goth records, if you have an interest in the 80's sounds, if you just love great songs and singing, these recordings offer something you may not hear much of during 2006. This is superb. It has an evocative blend of sounds, with thoughtful or anguished lyrics, and a simplicity which only proves how good the songs are. Moreover, it has an attitude and hunger about it which bands these days don't have, because anybody can form and record these days.
© Mick Mercer 2005But what makes this band so attractive, after all? Mainly, there is its versatility. With remarkable influences of Bauhaus and The Birthday Party, each one of their songs is a subgenre by itself. By the way, by coining the expression "death rock", Rozz Williams had in mind his dissociation from the concept, let's say, of "gothic music as the expression of a restrictive lifestyle". We could say that all that Siiiii produced reflects the time when reactions such as Rozz's were still unnecessary, a boiling moment in which the bands were more worried about their songs than with the tags that would or could be attributed to them.
© Cid Vale Ferreira 2006
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