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List Price: $34.98 | | Label: Phantom Sound & Vision
Salesrank: 197291
Released: October 27, 2009 |
| Our Price: $13.35 |
| Used Price: $13.02 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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The Fountain Track Listing:
1. Think I Need It Too
2. Forgotten Fields
3. Do You Know Who I Am?
4. Shroud of Turin
5. Life of a Thousand Crimes
6. Fountain
7. Everlasting Neverendless
8. Proxy
9. Drivetime
10. Idolness of Gods
Editorial Review:
2009 release, the 10th studio album from the veteran Liverpudlian band led by vocalist Ian McCulloch and guitarist Will Sergeant. Along with Teardrop Explodes and Wah! Heat, Echo & the Bunnymen were part of the early-1980s Liverpool scene that was somewhat misleadingly dubbed Neo-Psychedelic. While the Bunnymen bore elements of the Doors' dark, mysterious sound and decidedly abstract lyrics, Punk played as much of a role in the development of the band's music as anything else. What marks their sound more than anything else, though, is a soaring, anthemic quality that can be quite affecting. 10 tracks.
The Fountain Reviews:
Return to form 
2009-12-28 - The last couple of albums have been good, but The Fountain sees the boys back in full 80's form. Recommended.
Starts as a warm burner, that gets hotter each time you listen to it!
2009-12-22 - I really appreciate an album that gets your attention right away, your wanting to hear it more and more as the days pass. Then you find yourself pushing aside other music so you can listen to these tunes again and again. And you can't help but see the lyrics in your head and feel the beat in your chest. A really good effort I give it a 4 1/3 stars! And I just listened to E&TB in concert in L.A. in October 2009, they were great!
Thank you, Elvis Preslewski!
2009-12-19 - Welcome back, Neil Diamond! I for one am glad you're feeling better. I wasn't sure what was going on after I heard "Home After Dark," which first off is a silly title because everybody knows, unless you're a square, that after dark is the best time to be out of the house -- partying down! And second, why were you trying to sound like Willie Nelson on that album? One Willie Nelson is plenty, as any self-respecting IRS agent will tell you.
I don't know why you're using this silly moniker, though. Maybe you just watched "Donnie Darko" for the first time. I didn't really get it. Was it about a rabbit that could pull things out of the Bermuda Triangle and slam them into your house when you weren't home? I could have done without that Christmas album you just put out as well, but I guess some people are into sardonic stocking stuffers, so whatever. I'll let it slide as long as you promise I don't have to listen to "A Cherry Cherry Christmas" if I'm ever interrogated in a barbed-wire hotel overseas for the reviews that Amazon keeps rejecting.
But, boy howdy, it's like the good ol' "Jazz Singer" days on "The Fountain." A wellspring that truly doth overfloweth! The voice lessons with Bruce Willis really seem to be paying off. I just wish you could get rid of your new guitarist who is trying to sound like The Edge. They call him that because he can't fully depress the strings on his guitar because Bozo "Bug Man" Pope is always rapping his knuckles for back-talking during practice. He can only kind of rest one hand across the frets and flap at the sound hole with the other, while Riverdancing on top of the effects pedals. Hence, not a good guitarist for Sgt. Willy, or whatever his real name is, to emulate. Just my honest opinion if you want to make it in the biz.
More a MuCulloch solo album! 
2009-12-11 - A full listening of this album makes me believe that this is really a Ian McCulloch solo album. That isn't always a bad thing as EATB's "What Are You Going To Do With Your Life?" had Will Sargeant claiming that he was hardly on it, but it is a great album. The song Rust was an expanded version of a solo Mac b-side "Ribbons and Chains". EATB's last two albums showed some a return to some classic form along with Mac's matured song writing. This album seems more closely related to Mac's uneven last solo album. As a Bunnymen album I have to rate this a two stars; as a Mac album I'd give it three. Mac takes solo credit for three out of the ten songs.
The opening track "Think I need It Too" sounds more like The Killers than EATB. The pop crapness of "Proxy" should never be on a Bunnymen album. I can complain about most of the other songs... Don't get me wrong--I think Mac is one of the greatest song writers out there but this just doesn't feel like the Bunnymen.
Let Will Sargeant produce the next album. Please, please, please!
Boy did I miss them, and was it ever worth the wait!
2009-12-02 - Shroud of Turin sounds almost like New Order, but so much like their own Bomber's Bay. Ian McCullough's voice has actually gotten better.
It's amazing how fast I was able to sing along with this CD. Just like Songs to Learn and Sing, they just get inside you and stay there.
And if you listen to them really closely, you'll hear the same beautiful, lilting guitar and unmistakable piano.
They're not just some old band come back to try to make another CD. They've been completely reborn.
After listening over and over again, I can't find even one bad song on this CD.
My other CDs of theirs are completely worn out and all scratched up, and this one would be too if it wasn't a download.
This one has made sleepless nights much easier to pass.
Love you Bunnymen! Bravo.
