Description
Bauhaus’ early run of singles quickly established the English act as a mystifying force with a penchant for gothic, Bela Lugosi-referencing wordplay. Dead to rights, 1980 full-length debut In the Flat Field kept up the intrigue through songs that transformed the flare and sex-scented panache of U.K. glam and the bone-rattling rhythms of post-punk and dub into a macabre sound all of its own. The roots of goth are heard in uncaged explosions like “In the Flat Field” and “Stigmata Martyr,” songs that still send an exquisite shiver up your spine nearly 50 years later.