The Stranglers - La Folie (1981) [CD-Reissue 1987]
EAC | FLAC(tracks)+CUE+LOG > 247 MB | Full Scans | MP3 CBR 320 > 100 MB
New Wave | TT - 41:25 minutes | Label: EMI Records Ltd. # CDP 746614-2
Isolationist, misanthropic, and cantankerous, punk survivors the Stranglers were never a band known for ostentatious displays of affection, at least not to music journalists. However, 1981's conceptual La Folie (roughly translated as "madness") has become known in band circles as the Stranglers "love" album. Typically, these were no ordinary chansons d'amour. Songs of faith, familial strife, devotion, and dependency–spanning religion, celebrity obsession, lust, death, and drugs–the nearest the album got to being superficially palatable was on the gorgeous, harpsichord-strewn "Golden Brown," ex-jail-bird Hugh Cornwell's paean to the seduction of heroin. And then there was the chilled-out title-track, six sultry minutes of J.J. Burnel reciting–entirely in French–the true story of a Paris-based student who murdered and ate his girlfriend.