Title: The home of the shadows of the night
Product review: 'La Folie' is 'the madness'. This is an album loosely based on the concept of love as madness: love of drugs; love of God; love of the family; love of money. Even cannibalism makes an appearance!This showcases the Stranglers at their creative peak. If you haven't heard 'Golden Brown', I envy you - I wish I was hearing it for the first time. The sweetest song ever written about smack.Other standouts for me are 'Tramp' 'Pin up' 'Non Stop' and the spoken French title track. Classic Stranglers - melancholy, maverick; world-weary and weird.This CD reissue is marred only by the inclusion of 'Cruel Garden' a later b-side, which although a nice song, sits incongruously with the rest of the collection. But hey! You wouldn't expect a record company to understand great art...
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