Pere Ubu: The Long Goodbye, 2CD

The Long Goodbye is a properly fucked up album.

This is 38 minutes of pure unadulterated (almost Frank Sidebottom) nonsense, but done in a good way. You can tell they’ve been firmly living inside their head with the studio recordings.. There’s so much going on it’s hard to keep track. It’s not an easy listen.

The live CD however makes the studio tracks an easier listen and tracks such as Road Is A Preacher, Fortunate Son (not a cover version of CCR) and Skidrow-On- Sea sound great live and, to me, sound better than what was recorded in the studio.

Don’t get me wrong, this is a really nice studio record return, after a short hiatus but it’s the live disc that actually makes this record worth having. Simply because Chris Cutler rejoined David Thomas, Gagarin and Keith Moliné to play the entire album live. To hear them back together is breathtaking.

I’ve listened to the live album more than the studio album purely for that reason. 

The Long Goodbye is a good studio record, however Pere Ubu have released better over the years (Why I Hate Women is a good example from 2006).

Very avant-garde and not for the close minded

Score 6/10
Track List

Release Date
12th July 2019
Label
Cherry Red

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