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By Kyle Littlefield
The Battalion
Peter Murphy
Cascade
Beggars Banquet
★ ★★★ (out of five)
Peter Murphy
Peter Murphy has always relied on image to get his
music across. At times, he has seemed the vampire,
other times the Gothic prophet speaking of another
world.
While this worked to sell records, the image of "Pe
ter Murphy” grew too large, overshadowing the actual
person.
Murphy set out to remedy this situation, dissolved
his backing band of seven years. The Hundred Men,
moved from his native England to Turkey, and spent
time collecting his thoughts.
He emerges from his sabbatical with Cascade, an al
bum to show the world the true Peter Murphy. Cas
cade finds Murphy continuing to delve into the depths
of the abstract, yet somehow maintaining a friendly
pop sensibility.
Cascade combines the deft lyrical skill of his 1990
album Deep, with the danceable computer program
ming of 1988’s Love Hysteria, and includes the same
atmospheric qualities of his last album, Holy Smoke.
It seems as if Murphy’s voice only gets better with
age. His trademark baritone is strong yet versatile.
The "Peter Murphy sound” is as apparent on Cascade
as it was on Deep — he still beds the tracks with a low-
pitched vocal, and then sings over it with his David
Bowie-like lead.
Murphy borrows a little bit more from Bowie on
songs like “Gliding Like a Whale,” which features ex
perimental background sounds indigenous to Bowie’s
Heroes album. Like many of Murphy’s songs, “Gliding”
describes the abstract — “It only takes the time be
tween here and there for landing in another place /
Saw your shadow fleeting in the corner of my eye /
Your feet were skimming the sand as the sun begat;
fly.”
He comments in a press release, “Oblique imager
used purposefully to be non-specific because if you;
an idea when you describe it, the idea dies.”
Murphy echoes his earlier gem, “Cut’s You Up,"k:
the lyrical sequel “The Scarlet Thing in You." WH
not as dark and moody as “Cut’s You Up,” the song:
fers Murphy another chance to show his hit songut
ing potential. The lead guitar is reminiscent ofH
Cure’s “Just Like Heaven,” as it spirals in and out
the melody.
“Disappearing” is of the same vein as Holy Smoi
“Keep Me From Harm” — crunchy, guitar driven. | !
“It’s about the disappearance or the loss of one’s ®
personality within a partnership, within your mar®
Murphy says.
Murphy explains that he attempts to writeal
love in a certain fashion.
“I do it in a way that offers a set of images and
lage of words that attempt to explore a wider com
he said.
“Disappearing” is also the one track on the
that Murphy slips back into the groove of his prev:
work with Bauhaus.
Murphy should be congratulated on his willing:
to continue to experiment. In a time where disto:
guitars are essential for a hit, and keyboard:
taboo, Murphy fearlessly compliments his songs
the buzz and whir of computer-generated sounds.
“I’ll Fall With Your Knife” could be a harbinger
the fate of music post-1995 with its brilliant mixtum
guitar and computerized noise. The song is a religi;
experience with its prophetic lyrics and the monk!
chant of the refrain. “Oh, like winter in July/Abarri
river wide / I pray for the flood to wash on you/l|
here I’ll be with you,” Murphy sings.
Peter Murphy albums have always been powerrj
but are often quickly found in used-CD bins. Howei
Cascade should avoid this fate. It contains many
that the listener will simply want to have near.
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