Porcupine (Remastered, + 7 Bonus Tracks) (1983)

"Solid third album; a noticeably better listen than its predecessor, "Heaven Up Here". Songs are intriguing and elaborate, often featuring swooping, howling melodic lines. Arrangements here owe a lot to 1960s psychedelia and feature lots of reverb, washed textures, intricate production touches, and altered guitar sounds. Ian McCulloch's vocals are yearning, soaring, and hyper-expressive here, almost to the point of being histrionic. Driving bass and drums lend the songs urgency and keep the music from collapsing into self-indulgence. Parallels between U.S. contemporaries such as Translator, Wire Train, and R.E.M. can be drawn, though all seem to have developed aspects of this style simultanously, none utilize it as flamboyantly as the Bunnymen do. This reissue features a wealth of bonus tracks. Best of the lot is the single that followed the record, "Never Stop," the band's most exciting and successful fusion of dancefloor energy and pop hooks. A very well done expansion of an already fine album." (Allmusic)

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