Boomerang by The Creatures

Boomerang, the Creatures' second album, arrived in 1989, six years after Feast, and it takes Siouxsie Sioux and Budgie, the Siouxsie and the Banshees pair behind the project, a long way from home. They cut it in Jerez de la Frontera in Andalusia, with Mike Hedges co-producing, and you can practically feel the southern Spanish heat coming off it. Where Feast kept percussion front and center, this one opens out: trumpet, trombone and saxophone blare and strut, Budgie's drums roll and clatter, and the songs wander through blues, jazz and flamenco.

Siouxsie sounds magnificent, prowling and wailing through "Standing There" and the jittery "Fury Eyes", and critics heaped praise on her singing and on the album's range. Jeff Buckley was a fan too, and covered "Killing Time".

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