Siouxsie & Banshees Rapture

Siouxsie & The Banshees: Siouxsie Sioux (vocals), Jon Klein (guitar), Martin McCarrick (cello, keyboards, accordion), Steven Severin (bass), Budgie (drums, percussion).Additional personnel: Renaud Pion (woodwinds).Producers: John Cale (tracks 1-2, 7-9); Siouxsie & The Banshees (tracks 3-6, 10-12).Engineers: Martin Brass (tracks 1-2, 7-9); Charlie Gray (tracks 3-6, 10-12).Recorded in Leon, France and London, England.All songs written by Siouxsie & The Banshees.It would have been easy to write off the Banshees after the so-so Superstition, especially given the fact that it came after two uneven and disappointing albums (including the unnecessary covers collection Through the Looking Glass) Frankly, one of punk's most consistently invigorating acts seemed to have run their course. Sure enough, The Rapture proved to be their final recording. The surprise is that it's a career highpoint. The band deny, incidentally, that they knew this was to be their last album. Quite how Sioux