Siberia (Echo & the Bunnymen album)

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Siberia
EchoBunnymenSiberia.jpg
Studio album by
Released20 September 2005
Genre Alternative rock, post-punk, neo-psychedelia
Length51:18
Label Cooking Vinyl
Producer Hugh Jones
Echo & the Bunnymen chronology
Live in Liverpool
(2001)
Siberia
(2005)
Seven Seas
(2005)
Singles from Siberia
  1. "Stormy Weather"
    Released: 5 September 2005
  2. "In the Margins"
    Released: 31 October 2005
  3. "Scissors in the Sand"
    Released: 5 June 2006

Siberia is the tenth studio album by Echo & the Bunnymen. It was released on 20 September 2005 and received mixed reviews and was consequently the band's first album to not enter into the UK Top 75 Albums Chart.

Contents

The track "Of a Life" has the line "I want a song to learn and sing", which name-checks the band's 1985 compilation album Songs to Learn and Sing .

Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 66/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
NME (3/10) [4]
Pitchfork Media (6.7/10) [5]
Slant Magazine Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]
Spin (favourable) [7]
Stylus Magazine (B) [8]
Uncut Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [9]

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Siberia received an average score of 66, based on 17 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [1]

Track listing

All tracks written by Ian McCulloch and Will Sergeant.

  1. "Stormy Weather" – 4:24
  2. "All Because of You Days" – 5:44
  3. "Parthenon Drive" – 5:11
  4. "In the Margins" – 5:06
  5. "Of a Life" – 3:44
  6. "Make Us Blind" – 4:00
  7. "Everything Kills You" – 4:17
  8. "Siberia" – 4:56
  9. "Sideways Eight" – 3:16
  10. "Scissors in the Sand" – 5:29
  11. "What If We Are?" – 5:09

Personnel

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