Silhouettes & Statues: A Gothic Revolution 1978 - 1986 charts the rise of rock's most crepuscular genre, from its post-punk beginnings to its full mid-80s flowering.
Across five CDs we hear from early catalysts like JOY DIVISION, THE CURE, THE BIRTHDAY PARTY, THE DAMNED and ADAM & THE ANTS to major players such as THE SISTERS OF MERCY, THE MISSION, BAUHAUS, ALL ABOUT EVE, ALIEN SEX FIEND and FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM, along the way alighting on SOUTHERN DEATH CULT, DEAD CAN DANCE, REMA-REMA, SECITON 25, CLOCK DVA, UK DECAY, 13th CHIME (pictured), LOVE AND ROCKETS, THE ASSOCIATES, SPECIMEN, BALAAM & THE ANGEL, THE MARCH VIOLETS, FLESH FOR LULU, RUBELLA BALLET, SKELETAL FAMILY and many, many more....
Packaged in a hardback book format, the set features copious sleevenotes, illustrated with dozens of rare and unseen images.
Silhouettes & Statues: A Gothic Revolution 1978 - 1986 is set for release on 30 June.
The Full tracklisting is....
Joy Division - Shadowplay
The Birthday Party - Release The Bats
Rema-Rema - Rema-Rema
Paranoia - Shattered Glass
Section 25 - Charnel Ground
The Sisters Of Mercy - Floorshow
Clock DVA - The Female Mirror
UK Decay - The Black Cat
Alien Sex Fiend - Dead And Re-Buried
Love And Rockets - Seventh Dream Of Teenage Heaven
The Associates - Q Quarters
In Excelsis - Carnival Of The Gullible
Nevilluxury - Feels Like Dancing Wartime
Flesh For Lulu - Vaguely Human
The March Violets - Crow Baby
All About Eve - D For Desire
Folk Devils - Beautiful Monster
Public Image Ltd - Flowers of Romance
Danielle Dax - Bed Caves
Southern Death Cult - Moya
1919 - Caged
The Cure - The Hanging Garden
S-Haters - Solitary Habit
Dead Can Dance - The Arcane
Years On Earth - Saving Face
In The Nursery - Breach Birth
Play Dead - The Tenant
Part 1 - Ghost
13th Chime - Cuts Of Love
The Tempest - Ice Cold in
Screaming Dead - Night Creatures
Bushido - Among The Ruins
Portion Control - Fiends
Actifed - Creation
Adam And The Ants - Tabletalk
Balaam And the Angel - The Darklands
The Legendary Pink Dots - Love Puppets
Artery - Into The Garden
Salvation - Girlsoul
The Chameleons - In Shreds
Schleimer K - Fugitive Kind
The Bolshoi - By The River
Gene Loves Jezebel - Screaming (For Emmalene)
Lowlife - Gallery Of Shame
And Also The Trees - Out Of The Moving Life Of Circles
Siiiii - Is Still
Tabathas Nightmare - Heroin (Live At The Batcave)
Brigandage - Angel Of Vengeance
Penetration - Stone Heroes
The Rose Of Avalanche - LA Rain
Furyo - Legacy
The Mission - Stay With Me
Nico - Saeta
In Camera - Fragments Of Fear
Dance Chapter - Anonymity
Ausgang - Sink Into You
Cocteau Twins - In Our Angelhood
Sunglasses After Dark - Morbid Silence
Fields Of The Nephilim - Trees Come Down (Original Version)
Anorexic Dread - Tracey's Burning
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Take It All
Tones On Tail - Burning Skies
Blood And Roses - Spit Upon Your Grave
Threat - Lullaby In C
I'm Dead - Storm Pause
Zero Le Creche - Last Year's Wife
Bauhaus - Stigmata Martyr
The Wake - Patrol
Specimen - Returning From A Journey
Theatre Of Hate - Original Sin
Attrition - Birthrite
Sad Lovers and Giants - Things We Never Did
The Damned - Dr Jeckyl And Mr Hyde
Gloria Mundi - The Hill
Dali’s Car - His Box
Inca Babies - The Diseased Stranger's Waltz
Death Cult - Ghost Dance
Modern Eon - Euthenics
Ritual - Mind Disease
Skeletal Family - She Cries Alone
Bone Orchard - Jack
Hula - Ghost Rattle
Rubella Ballet - Twister
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