[Modern Music Recommended]

Floodland is the second album by The Sisters of Mercy, released in 1987. Composed and produced by Andrew Eldritch, it marked a change of direction from guitar-oriented indie rocksynthesizer-based productions. towards

It includes, among other things, choral singing, typically bombastic Jim Steinman productions (on "Dominion/Mother Russia" and "This Corrosion") and the first and last piano-and-vocals-only Sisters song ("1959", the piano programmed on synthesizer). While far from a concept album, Floodland still has many recurring themes and images. The most obvious one is the flood itself, an erotic, post-apocalyptic reference to tidal floods after nuclear war.

1. Dominion/Mother Russia (7:01)
2. Flood I (6:22)
3. Lucretia My Reflection (4:57)
4. 1959 (4:09)
5. This Corrosion (10:55)
6. Flood II (6:47)
7. Driven Like The Snow (6:27)
8. Never Land (a fragment) (2:46)