Boomerang is the second album to be released by British

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 duo The Creatures

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The Creatures were a musical act formed in 1981 as a side-project for Siouxsie and the Banshees members Siouxsie Sioux and Budgie. The Times described their music as "adventurous art rock built around Siouxsie's extraordinary voice and drummer Budgie's battery of percussion".With the dissolution of...

 aka singer Siouxsie Sioux

Siouxsie Sioux

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 and musician Budgie

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. The album was recorded in Andalusia

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, Spain

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. One of the bluesy

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 songs of this album, "Killing Time", was covered live by Jeff Buckley

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 a few years later.

At its release, the album was hailed by the British press. NME

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qualified it as "a rich and unsettling landscape of exotica" and Melody Maker

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 stated that "Boomerang abounds with scarcely anticipated brilliance".

Lyrics

Budgie explains the song "Manchild" here: "It's a story based in Colombia

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before the drugs cartel, it's about a small child caught up in a feud, this vendetta between his village and another rival village. In a minor way it is all about drug trafficking, but ends with the stronger village wiping out the whole male population of the other village until there was just one boy left called Nelsito. It was understood that he would live till he was at least 18 before he was assassinated, but he was shot on the way to school."

And his comments on "Willow": "It's kind of about how my mother died as it was a black area and I hadn't realised what had happened until I saw my brother. He told me what went on with the family and I never really knew until a year afterwards, and I wrote it down directly after that".

Track listing

1. "Standing There" – 3:06
2. "Manchild" – 3:50
3. "You!" – 4:03
4. "Pity" – 3:39
5. "Killing Time" – 3:26
6. "Willow" – 2:06
7. "Pluto Drive" – 4:40
8. "Solar Choir" – 2:52
9. "Speeding" – 4:12
10. "Fury Eyes" – 2:10
11. "Fruitman" – 2:46
12. "Untiedundone" – 3:41
13. "Simoom" – 3:43
14. "Strolling Wolf" – 4:27
15. "Venus Sands" – 5:03
16. "Morriña" – 2:49