Echo & The BunnymenBest Echo & The Bunnymen Albums Ranked

Crocodiles

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8.0

“Leave it to the fad-happy British — the same people who brought you the 2-Tone ska craze, the refurbished mods and the heavy-metal revival — to teach that old dog psychedelia some new tricks. In addition to sharing profoundly silly names, Echo and the Bunnymen and the Teardrop Explodes share managers, producers, a hometown (Liverpool) […]”

Flowers

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7.0

“Never as pretty as the Smiths, as anthemic or grand as their rival U2 or as suicidal as Joy Division, Echo and the Bunnymen fell between the U.K. post-punk cracks at the dawn of the Eighties. But the band’s proto-Brit-pop sound resonates today in bands ranging from the Stone Roses through Radiohead and Oasis. Frontman […]”

Evergreen (Expanded)

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7.0

“Echo and the Bunnymen’s reunion album doesn’t quite hit the high-water mark of their 1984 classic, Ocean Rain, but it’s a stunning comeback nonetheless. While late drummer Pete De Freita’s tribal fills are missed (he died in a 1989 motorcycle accident), the remaining three-quarters of Echo find their hypnotic chemistry intact. Frontman Ian McCulloch brings […]”

Ocean Rain

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4.0

“Suspended somewhere ’twixt heaven and hell, Echo and the Bunnymen take an oddly visceral pleasure in their spiritual limbo, evoking a vast, white, arctic expanse that’s silent, unbroken and pure — but also deadly. The band’s fourth full-length LP is too often a monochromatic dirge of banal existential imagery cloaked around the mere skeleton of […]”