Charts.nz – Siouxsie & the Banshees – A Kiss in the Dreamhouse". Hung Medien. Retrieved 16 October 2021. In their 2009 review of the reissued album, The Quietus wrote: "The result was their most colourful and – ahem – kaleidoscopic collection yet". [1] Critic Julian Marszalek commented that the album's music is "fundamentally pop, yet unafraid to revel in a quirkiness born of altered states. A deliberate shift from the overt darkness of its predecessor, Juju". [1] Marszalek qualified the work of guitarist McGeoch as "a seamless beauty", and wrote that "Siouxsie's voice achieves a sense of strength and maturity". [1] The journalist concluded the review by noting that "Siouxsie and the Banshees weren't afraid to stretch themselves. Here was a band that dared to challenge itself as much as their listeners". [1] Legacy [ edit ] A musically stunning work that stands as one of the greatest and most inventive goth albums ever recorded.

In 2006, music historian Garry Mulholland included it in his book Fear of Music about the 261 greatest albums since 1976. [15] The great Siouxsie and the Banshees album. It's somewhat of a departure however, while they once used to perform sacrifices in bloody frenzies now they would be more likely to waltz in the general direction of the sacrificial bonfire. A Kiss in the Dreamhouse was the first album on which Siouxsie and the Banshees really exploited the possibilities of the studio and allowed themselves to be inspired by sounds. It is the fifth studio album by the band and was released on 5 November 1982 by Polydor Records. British album certifications – Siouxsie & the Banshees – A Kiss in the Dreamhouse". British Phonographic Industry. 6 January 1983 . Retrieved 16 October 2021.

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We were caught up in the insanity of that moment,” says Budgie. “We were losing the studio. We were losing a member. We were losing our minds. You try to manufacture those things, where you’re trying to live on the edge, take away the safety-net, risk everything, and you’re hoping that, out of the risk-taking, comes something magic. And that’s what Dreamhouse is. But you can’t continue that way.” Stevenson was fired in the spring of 1982, just as the Banshees started work on their fifth album, despite Sioux losing her voice while on tour in Scandinavia in March. The follow-up to Juju would be “lush and exotic, and as aurally seductive as possible”, Sioux recalls. Severin had even come up with a title, inspired by a piece of twisted Hollywood history that author James Ellroy would subsequently make famous in 1990 novel LA Confidential. “I was watching some hour-long TV show and it was all about the ’40s when they apparently had these brothels where the women had been surgically altered to resemble the stars of the day. The title just came to me after that. It was funny when the movie of LA Confidential came out, because that’s exactly where it came from.” Both a critical and commercial success, A Kiss in the Dreamhouse peaked at No. 11 on the UK Albums Chart. [2] A 180g vinyl LP reissue of the album, remastered from the original ¼” tapes and cut half-speed at Abbey Road Studios by Miles Showell, was released in September 2018.

his a RECORD STORE DAY 2023 title - available over the counter in store first come first served on SATURDAY 22nd APRIL 2023 and the Sunday and Monday following.The layers of twelve-string guitar and flanged effects from McGeoch's fingers on opener 'Cascade' flow with a seamless beauty as elsewhere and throughout, Siouxsie's voice achieves a sense of strength and maturity that she's been building up to over the previous albums. As the ears are re-acquainted with the menacingly whimsical 'Green Fingers', it becomes apparent that Steven Severin was a bassist every bit as idiosyncratic and inventive as bass pirate Peter Hook. As part of Record Store Day 2023 Universal Music Recordings are releasing the fifth Siouxsie and the Banshees studio album - A Kiss In The Dreamhouse pressed on 180g clear and gold marbled vinyl, mastered and cut half speed vinyl at Abbey Road Studios. This all came about from the Juju tour in America,” Sioux explains. “What I found most intoxicating about New York was the amazing bars and I had this amazing conversation with a tattooed sailor. He told me this story of someone who became so obsessed by their ex-lover that they’d break into their flat and leave their pubic hair on their pillow. It was like a folklore tale. Was I applying my experience with Nils to the story? Well… it’s a connection. It made the story more poignant and allowed me to live in the place of the song.”