Siberia (Echo & the Bunnymen album)

This article is about the Echo & the Bunnymen Album. For the Lights album, see Siberia (Lights album).

Siberia is the tenth studio album by Echo & the Bunnymen. It was released on 20 September 2005 and received mixed reviews and was consequently the band's first album to not enter into the UK Top 75 Albums Chart.

Siberia
Studio album by Echo & the Bunnymen
Released	20 September 2005
Genre	Alternative rock, post-punk, neo-psychedelia
Length	51:18
Label	Cooking Vinyl
Producer	Hugh Jones
Echo & the Bunnymen chronology
Live in Liverpool (2001) Siberia (2005) Seven Seas (2005)
Singles from Siberia
"Stormy Weather" Released: 5 September 2005 "In the Margins" Released: 31 October 2005 "Scissors in the Sand" Released: 5 June 2006

The track "Of a Life" has the line "I want a song to learn and sing", which name-checks the band's 1985 compilation album Songs to Learn and Sing.

Reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	66/100[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
The Guardian	[3]
NME	(3/10)[4]
Pitchfork Media	(6.7/10)[5]
Slant Magazine	[6]
Spin	(favourable)[7]
Stylus Magazine	(B)[8]
Uncut	[9]

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Siberia received an average score of 66, based on 17 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".^[1]

Track listing

All tracks written by Ian McCulloch and Will Sergeant.

1. "Stormy Weather" – 4:24
2. "All Because of You Days" – 5:44
3. "Parthenon Drive" – 5:11
4. "In the Margins" – 5:06
5. "Of a Life" – 3:44
6. "Make Us Blind" – 4:00
7. "Everything Kills You" – 4:17
8. "Siberia" – 4:56
9. "Sideways Eight" – 3:16
10. "Scissors in the Sand" – 5:29
11. "What If We Are?" – 5:09

Personnel

Echo & the Bunnymen

• Ian McCulloch - guitar, vocals
• Will Sergeant - lead guitar

with:

• Peter Wilkinson - bass
• Paul Fleming - keyboards
• Simon Finley - drums
• Hillary Browning - cello on "Everything Kills You" and "What If We Are?"
• Kate Evans, Martin Richardson - violin on "Everything Kills You" and "What If We Are?"
• John Robert Shepley - viola on "Everything Kills You" and "What If We Are?"
• Mimi McCulloch - tambourine on "In the Margins"

References

1. "Critic Reviews for Siberia". Metacritic. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
2. "Siberia - Echo & the Bunnymen". AllMusic. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
3. "Siberia review". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
4. Siberia review". 17 September 2005. p. 58. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
5. "Siberia review". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
6. "Siberia review" Archived 17 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine. Slant Magazine. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
7. "Siberia review". Spin. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
8. "Siberia review". Stylus Magazine. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
9. Siberia review. October 2005. p. 94. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)

External links

• Siberia at Discogs (list of releases)