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Floodland
The 667th greatest album of all time
Floodland (1987) finds The Sisters of Mercy shifting toward a more synth-driven, atmospheric take on gothic rock, blending dark wave and dance-rock elements with prominent sequencers and the drum machine Doktor Avalanche. Andrew Eldritch's deep baritone is set against dense keyboards, echoing guitars and choir-like vocal overdubs on songs such as "This Corrosion", "Dominion/Mother Russia" and "Lucretia My Reflection". The album emphasizes spacious, cinematic arrangements and a brooding, nocturnal mood that helped define a strand of late 1980s dark alternative music.
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