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    Album Of The Week Album Of The Week - 07/03/2026 - Track 4 My penultimate selection from Go Away White is one of the darker songs on the album. Musically, Endless Summer Of The Damned, is quite melodic driven by a rhythmic bass layered with Daniel Ash's effects laden guitars but its the lyric of enviromental doom delivered with Peter Murphy's pained vocal that adds the darkness to the song. Album Of The Week - 07/03/2026 - Track 3 My third selection from Go Away White is one of the more direct songs on the album, the track Adrenalin. Unlike some of the songs on this album this is a more conventional rock song without the more obscure lyrics making Adrenaline one of the more instantly accessible tracks on Go Away White. Album Of The Week - 07/03/2026 - Track 2 My second selection from Go Away White is the track Undone. This song has the typical Bauhaus mix of art rock quirkiness with its hypnotic bass, scratchy guitar and the off kilter vocals. This song takes me right back...
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   Album Of The Week 2026 - Archive Album Of The Week - 03/01/2026 Dark Fields - Show of Hands We kick off 2026 with a band that have made a massive impact on my music listening, the Devon based folk duo, Show of Hands, who comprise of singer/songwriter/musician Steve Knightley and the multi-instrumentalist and folk legend Phil Beer, formerly of the Albion Band. This week’s album, Dark Fields, is the fourth of my 32 Show of Hands albums to be selected as my album of week and its an album that has a special memory, as I bought it at a gig we attended at the Exeter Phoenix soon after Julie & I started following them. Dark Fields, released in 1997, is actually the bands 6 th  album although the first 3 were cassette only and are now long out of print. Therefore, Dark Fields is the third main release album and continued the success and acclaim Show of Hands had garnered from their previous 2 albums. In 1996, Show of Hands surprisingly booked the Royal Albert Hall and even...
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