Anybody familiar with this McCulloch less Bunnymen album. When I started listening to them I was quickly hooked, but knew little of them. On a trip to America with the family when I was about 17 I picked this up. Immediatley I knew that the voice was very different. Checking credits I realised this was a different Bunnymen. Seargent and Pattenson were there, De Freitas had died - but Sir Ian was absent. However I gave it a chance - and it was great.
After Ocean Rain, released in May of '84, I couldn't imagine Echo & The Bunnymen putting together another album with such an amazing array of strong tracks. Their self titled album, released in July of '89, had some good tracks, but most of them ended up sounding more like pop rock than the edgy, alternative style that defined the band's earlier work (New Direction is a wonderful exception). So when Ian McCulloch left the band, there was absolutely no reason to believe that the next Echo & The Bunnymen album would be of any consequence whatsoever. I bought Reverberation anyway, more out of curiosity than anything else.
Anybody like it/got it/hate it?