Siberia (Echo and the Bunnymen album)

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Released 20 September 2005 Siberia(2005) Seven Seas(2005) Release date 20 September 2005 Label Cooking Vinyl		Length 51:18 Artist Echo & the Bunnymen Producer Hugh Jones

Genres Post-punk, Alternative rock, Neo-psychedelia Similar Echo & the Bunnymen albums, Alternative rock albums

Echo the bunnymen siberia full album 2005

Siberia is the tenth studio album by Echo & the Bunnymen. It garnered generally positive reviews, with some commentators calling it their best work since Ocean Rain, despite it being their first album not to reach the UK Top 75.

The track "Of a Life" has the line "I want a song to learn and sing", which name-checks the band's 1985 compilation album Songs to Learn and Sing.

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Reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Siberia received an average score of 66, based on 17 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

Track listing

All tracks written by Ian McCulloch and Will Sergeant.

"Stormy Weather" – 4:24
"All Because of You Days" – 5:44
"Parthenon Drive" – 5:11
"In the Margins" – 5:06
"Of a Life" – 3:44
"Make Us Blind" – 4:00
"Everything Kills You" – 4:17
"Siberia" – 4:56
"Sideways Eight" – 3:16
"Scissors in the Sand" – 5:29
"What If We Are?" – 5:09

Personnel

Echo & the Bunnymen

Ian McCulloch - guitar, vocals

Will Sergeant - lead guitar

with:

Peter Wilkinson - bass

Paul Fleming - keyboards

Simon Finley - drums

Hillary Browning - cello on "Everything Kills You" and "What If We Are?"

Kate Evans, Martin Richardson - violin on "Everything Kills You" and "What If We Are?"

John Robert Shepley - viola on "Everything Kills You" and "What If We Are?"

Mimi McCulloch - tambourine on "In the Margins"

Songs

1Stormy Weather4:24
2All Because of You Days5:45
3Parthenon Drive5:12

References

Siberia (Echo & the Bunnymen album) Wikipedia

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