“Silent Hedges” by Bauhaus

"Silent Hedges" lurks on The Sky's Gone Out, the third album from Bauhaus, the English gothic rock band, which Beggars Banquet issued in 1982. Peter Murphy wrote the words and shares the writing credit with Daniel Ash, David J and Kevin Haskins. Murphy, Ash and David J all get vocal credits, while David J also plays bass and Haskins covers drums and percussion. Bauhaus produced it themselves, which was their habit; letting Hugh Jones produce the album's first single had caused friction.

This was a harder birth than In the Flat Field and Mask, the two records that had helped carve out gothic rock as a genre. The sessions were dogged by fights inside the band and with the label, and the critics were cooler this time round, though the album has since been reappraised far more kindly.

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