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The Reptile House E.P. [Grey Smokey] Vinyl
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The Sisters of Mercy slowed everything down and turned the lights out on The Reptile House E.P., the 1983 release that helped write the rulebook for gothic rock. It returns here as a Canadian import.
Released on the band's own Merciful Release label, it followed the Alice EP and pushed the Leeds group into darker, heavier territory. Andrew Eldritch produced it himself, and he has called it the most serious record they ever made, a deliberately slow and long piece of work with no easy way out.
Kiss The Carpet opens with a menacing, crawling pulse, the drum machine thudding like a heartbeat in a crypt while Eldritch's baritone looms out of the murk. Lights sustains the claustrophobic mood with layers of buried guitar and echo.
Valentine is perhaps the most melodic moment, a brooding, hypnotic track that hints at the band's later grandeur, and Burn simmers with a slow-motion menace. The lead lines are deliberately half-submerged in effects, so the record rewards close, patient listening.
Long a sought-after piece of the Sisters' early catalogue, The Reptile House E.P. remains essential for anyone tracing post-punk's descent into the shadows. Dim the lights, turn it up, and let it pull you down.
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