These Immortal Souls - Get Lost (Don't Lie!) (Remastered) (1987/2024)

Mute Presents These Immortal Souls' First Full-Length Album, Get Lost (Don't Lie!), Remastered On Vinyl And CD.

Finally Re-Released After 35 Years, Remastered From The Original Tapes At Legendary Birdland Studio By Lindsay Gravina And Original These Immortal Souls Members Harry Howard And Genevieve McGukin. This Is Available Alongside The 2024 Remaster Edition Of Their Second Album, I'm Never Gonna Die Again, And EXTRA, A Brand New Album Including Unearthed Live Recordings And Remastered Cover Tracks From Across Their Career.

The 30-Minute LP, Get Lost (Don't Lie!), Was Originally Released At The End Of 1987 Following The Band's Debut EP, Marry Me, On The American Underground Label SST. The Band Consisted Of Australian-Born Rowland S. Howard, Who Rose To Prominence As Nick Cave's Collaborator In The Birthday Party, His Bass-Playing Brother Harry Howard, Drummer Epic Soundtracks (Formerly Of Swell Maps And Jacobites), And Keyboardist Genevieve McGuckin. They Came Together 1987, After Soundtracks And The Howard Brothers Split From Crime & The City Solution And Were Joined By McGuckin To Form These Immortal Souls In London.

Allmusic Review by Charles Spano
Led by the seething, tightly wound guitar and desperate, plumbed-from-the-depths vocals of Rowland S. Howard (formerly a mainstay of the Birthday Party and Crime & the City Solution,) These Immortal Souls wander through the haze of smoky cabarets and faded photos worn at the edges on their full-length debut, Get Lost (Don't Lie). Throughout this bleak and paranoid midnight journey, the band plays dark marches ("Marry Me (Lie! Lie!)" and "Hide"); cover an Alex Chilton song with just the right amount of swagger ("Hey! Little Child"); and atmospheric Doors-meets-Bowie somber rock & roll ("These Immortal Souls"). This monumental album by dark poets of the soul – Rowland S. Howard, pianist Genevieve McGuckin, bassist Harry Howard, and drummer Epic Soundtracks – draws from sources such as Leonard Cohen, early '70s-era Rolling Stones, and even Joy Division, while completely avoiding the over-the-top trappings of the goth genre. Simultaneously rocking, painfully beautiful, and scarily close to the center of despair, this album gave notice that Howard and his crew were taking no prisoners along the way to staking out the claim that they were the true inheritors of the sound the Birthday Party had launched a few years before. Check out the rambling, rumbling ""Blood and Sand” She Said," a song with all that band's twisted glamour, spike-in-the-ear guitars, and tooth-rattling punch, but with substantially more subtlety and insinuation. Fewer people may have been listening to this as opposed to the Bad Seeds or Crime & the City Solution, but not for reasons of quality, only circumstance.

Tracklist
01 - Marry Me (Lie! Lie!) (2024 Remaster)
02 - Hide (2024 Remaster)
03 - Hey! Little Child (2024 Remaster)
04 - These Immortal Souls (2024 Remaster)
05 - I Ate the Knife (2024 Remaster)
06 - "Blood and Sand" She Said (2024 Remaster)
07 - One in Shadow, One in Sun (2024 Remaster)