There Goes the Daylight (live)
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There Goes The Daylight (1993) is noisy. Really Noisy. With the guitar upfront, and the playing forceful, this album’s closest counterpart is The Margin.
Even a song as delicate as The Habit Of The Broken Heart acquires an edge with the hard guitar sound - Stuart Gordon’s violin hardly softens the attack, and Hammill sings with a barely suppressed sneer. |
The songs themselves are for the most part of the strongest in Hammill’s catalogue. Even then, of the two songs that are duplicated here and on The Margin, (Empress’s Clothes and Sign), the better versions appear on The Margin. Yet those two songs count among the standout tracks on There Goes The Daylight.
Another standout is Cat’s Eye / Yellow Fever; reminding you that this line-up is pretty close to being Van Der Graaf II.