"Pindrop is a murky, swirling, pulsating mass. Drums are pounded urgently, with organ and voice wavering in and out of the mix like some kind of aural phantasy. Composition plays second fiddle to the lyrics, which are often buried in the mix anyway. Alienating, even disorienting! And engineered to sound like it was recording in the same olde back alley recording studio where lynch's eraserhead soundtrack was mastered. Pindrop is easily one of the most mysteriously brilliant albums ever."
Scott Gibbons
"With the disquieting Pindrop, The Passage can be accepted as major even by the cowardly, cautious and cynical: it's a work of disciplined intellectual aggresssion, frantic emotions and powerfully idiomatic musicality."
New Musical Express
"The Passage confront love, fear, repulsion and pain and all the most negative, most vindictive emotions humans are capable of, in the same sober, relentless way Joy Division did."
Sounds
"...twisting insanity; frightening, surreal experience; the pain of clashing relationships... their subjects are as sophisticated as their songs' structural make-up, which belies the overall impression of idealistic youthfulness."
Record Mirror
"...dark, spacey, disturbing and quite beautiful"
Trouser Press
Extra tracks here: (RS)
14-17 (1978)
18-21 (1979)e/and Radio session - Manchester 22-27 (1981)
1 comment:
great post - thanks. Shame they didn't put the ep version of 16 hours on the reissue, much better than the one on the album I think.
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