| 10. The Sisters of Mercy, “Walk
Away.” It was either this or the Tupac song that I’d meant
to extol in the first place, and with the iBook showing no signs of
life the thought of trying to reignite my initial inspiration has
become depressing, so what you get is a demo of the first single off
First and Last and Always. A demo! This from a band
who’d been successfully releasing their own singles and mounting
whole U.S. tours off the backs of them for several years at the
time. You can hear it: how tired they were of finding themselves in
Dallas without enough scratch to spring for a hotel room, how sick
they were of not being able to bring their own soundman along with
them, how solid they’d become as a band. Eldritch is hardly
even trying and he still nails the climactic verse to the floor with
his trademark croaky rust-spitting vocal nails. Tinnily savage and
quietly grandiose, and easily worth several minutes of a dwindling
Sunday night. Which we hope will finish dwindling sooner rather than
later and just die already. Bring on Monday. We await it with open
arms. |
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