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CD: 51103-2
RELEASED: 1992
LABEL: Triple X
01. The Breaking Hands
02. Thunderhead
03. Lupita Screams
04. Yellow Eyes
05. Hearts
06. Port of Souls
07. Pastoral, Hide and Seek
08. The Straits of Love & Hate
09. Emily's Changed
10. I Hear Your Heart Singing
11. St. John's Divine
12. Another Country's Young
13. Flowing
14. Temptation and I
15. Richard Speck
16. Keys to the Kingdom
17. Black Hole
18. Sorrow Knows
Exile compiles 18 songs from the three preceding longplayers, adding the heretofore unreleased "Pastoral, Hide and Seek" (recorded during the sessions for the album of the same name), Mother Juno and Pastoral Hide and Seek albums, and tracks from the mini-album Divinity. Given the band's wildly erratic live performances and Jeffrey Lee Pierce's struggles with both heroin and alcohol that led to his premature death in 1996, every track goes against the grain of who they had been and who they were expected to be. Pierce had more than enough creativity and fire in him as a songwriter, and the band had the personnel, with Romi Mori on bass, Kid Congo Powers back on guitar, and former Cramps drummer Nick Sanderson to do anything they wanted. The tension heard in the Mother Juno material, the band's most criminally underappreciated album, bears witness. For Pastoral Hide and Seek, the Gun Club was all over the map. As a collection this works far better, with the material all jammed together, than these tracks did on individual albums. On record they were always good, if not great.
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