Wednesday, March 11, 2020

The 1986 Listening Post - Killing Joke - Brighter Than a Thousand Suns

Killing Joke - Brighter Than a Thousand Suns


#517
November 1986
Killing Joke
Brighter Than a Thousand Suns
Genre: Rock
3.75 out of 5


Highlights:
Twilight of the Mortal

This album sounds exactly like what I might hope a Killing Joke sounds like in the mid 80s: Made by a band that had some high highs and some valleys and decided to pursue what worked in an attempt to grab some commercial cash and put out a very serviceable semblance of what sounds like a stadium Killing Joke record. It’s a wider sound that calls to mind an ominous…Echo & the Bunneymen. 
I like it, as I do most Killing Joke records I’ve heard on this but it’s no Killing Joke or What’s THIS For…? or Night Time, but it’s not terrible.

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