Lion (2CD Limited Edition)

Peter Murphy has hit us squarely with the broadly encompassing, disturbing and definitive Lion. The Bauhaus frontman and founder stands like cooling towers in the landscape, emitting a sublime and malevolent shade and once again so does his music. Acknowledging the perversity and morbidity of life as a basic fact, Bauhaus' records and those Murphy has made in his exceptionally fertile solo career have always been unforgiving, singular and totemic. Lion is no exception; down to the minutest detail it writhes in angst and screams toward transcendence. It is Mr. Murphy's best in some time, possessing an elegant mastery of tone in which meaning, semblance and truth lay over each other like petrol on water. Bass-heavy, stark, shimmering and symphonic, it reflects an iridescent haze of chemical sunsets and tampered memories.