Siouxsie and the Banshees “The Scream” 1978. Polydor Records. Considered a landmark of post-punk, which I find amusing as Brit punk was still kinda in its infancy in 1978, but I suppose punk is about shaking it up, going against status quo and therefore needs to change often to be relevant irreverent so why shouldn’t have post-punk emerged so quickly?

Textured, dark, sparse and rich all at the same time, “The Scream” truly achieves the band’s goal of sounding cinematic. The track “Overground” epitomizes all of these qualities and establishes Siouxsie and the Banshees as masters of goth:

Got to give up life in this netherworld
got to group to where the air is stale
and live a life of pleasantries
mingle in the modern families
Overground – from abnormality
Overboard – for identity
Overground – for normality
Overboard – on identity
This limbo is no place
to be a digit – Another space
in another crowd
I’m nameless bound