SKUNK ANANSIE — Wonderlustre (review)

SKUNK ANANSIE — Wonderlustre album cover Album · 2010 · Hard Rock Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
Warthur
Skunk Anansie reunite after 11 years for their first album after Post-Orgasmic Chill, and it's almost as though they never left. The drift away from angry, overtly political material continues as Skin regales the listener with songs about love and lust that manage to avoid being simple love songs thanks to the nuances and complexities of the emotions expressed. Rather than creating the usual Skunk Anansie awkward juxtaposition of angry rants and ballads, here the band seem content to spend most of the album in ballad mode, which is somewhat to the album's detriment, since in the long term it seems to lack the diversity of musical vision which made the band's earlier albums such wild rides and doesn't bring anything to table to match the anger of Paranoid & Sunburnt, the delicious conflict between strident fury and doubting self-analysis on Stoosh, or the experimentalism of Post-Orgasmic Chill. Still, closing track I Will Stay But You Should Leave is nice.
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