“Kingdom's Coming” by Bauhaus

"Kingdom's Coming" sits on Burning from the Inside, the fourth Bauhaus album, which Beggars Banquet released in July 1983. The music is credited to all four members, Daniel Ash, David J, Kevin Haskins and Peter Murphy, with Ted Sharp and Derek Tompkins engineering.

That shared credit hides a band coming apart. Murphy was ill during the recording, so the others pressed on and did a great deal of the writing and taping without him; David J and Ash each took lead vocals on songs of their own, and by the time the record came out Bauhaus had already split. The title, David J revealed in 2015, came from a mishap: he and Ash had been smoking hash in a car when it caught fire. Writing in The Quietus in 2013, Ned Raggett praised the album's sprawl and found beauty in its fragmentation.

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