Boomerang (The Creatures album)

Infobox Album
Name = Boomerang
Type = studio
Artist = The Creatures


Released = November 1989
Recorded = May 1989
Genre = Alternative rock Experimental
Length =
Label = Polydor/PolyGram Records (UK) Geffen/Warner Bros. Records (US) GHS 24275
Producer = Mike Hedges The Creatures
Reviews =
Last album = "Feast" (1983)
This album = "Boomerang" (1989)
Next album = "Anima Animus" (1999)

"Boomerang" is the second album to be released by British duo the Creatures. The album was recorded in Andalusia, Spain.

One of the most languorous songs of this album, “Killing Time,” was covered live by Jeff Buckley a few years later. [http://www.jeffbuckley-fr.net/disco/Liste.html]

NME wrote in its review : "A rich and unsettling landscape of exotica" and the journalist Roger Morton noted 8/10. [ [http://www.thebansheesandothercreatures.co.uk/boomerangreviews.htm NME 11/11/89 Roger Morton] ]

Melody Maker precised : "This is Siouxsie's most inventive and invigorated music since 'A Kiss In The Dreamhouse'.". [ [http://www.thebansheesandothercreatures.co.uk/boomerangreviews.htm Melody Maker 11/11/89 Simon Reynolds] ]

Lyrics

Budgie explains the song "Manchild" here: "It's a story based in Colombia before the drugs cartel, it's about a small child caught up in a feud, this vendetta between his village and another rival village. In a minor way it is all about drug trafficking, but ends with the stronger village wiping out the whole male population of the other village until there was just one boy left called Nelsito. It was understood that he would live till he was at least 18 before he was assassinated, but he was shot on the way to school."

And his comments on "Willow": "It's kind of about how my mother died as it was a black area and I hadn't realised what had happened until I saw my brother. He told me what went on with the family and I never really knew until a year afterwards, and I wrote it down directly after that".

"Fruitman" was in fact a local they encountered during recording. "Simoom" means "dry wind" in Arabic and was written about the Salman Rushdie affair.

Track listing

# "Standing There" – 3:06
# "Manchild" – 3:50
# "You!" – 4:03
# "Pity" – 3:39
# "Killing Time" – 3:26
# "Willow" – 2:06
# "Pluto Drive" – 4:40
# "Solar Choir" – 2:52
# "Speeding" – 4:12
# "Fury Eyes" – 2:10
# "Fruitman" – 2:46
# "Untiedundone" – 3:41
# "Simoom" – 3:43
# "Strolling Wolf" – 4:27
# "Venus Sands" – 5:03
# "Morriña" – 2:49

References