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ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN
SIBERIA
COOKING VINYL
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This early-’80s British pop group got the jump on the current vogue for alt-rock reunions when they released the pointedly titled Evergreen in 1997, a decade after their homonymous swan song. So it makes sense that Echo and the Bunnymen would sound more natural on Siberia, their third Phase 2 studio release, than do many of their more recently re-formed peers. Put that down partly to the durability of Echo’s sound: guitarist Will Sergeant is always finding new variations on the melodic jangle that came to define mid-’80s college rock, and Ian McCulloch’s rich baritone is the sort of voice that only takes on character with age. McCulloch puts over his typical mixture of dreamy and gloomy here — "I just want a kiss goodnight/Say goodnight one more time," he moans in "All Because of You Days" — but with Sergeant’s crisp chords ringing out behind him, he sounds energized, not enervated, by experience. Echo and the Bunnymen + Innaway | Axis, 13 Lansdowne Street, Boston | Nov 19 | 617.228.6000
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