Artist: The Mission
Title Of Album: Aural Delight
Year Of Release: 2002
Country: UK
Label: XIII Bis Records
Genre: Gothic Rock
Quality: MP3
Bitrate: 320 kbps CBR
Total Time: 56 min 19 sec
Total Size: 131 Mb (+3%) | Scans
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Unreleased tracks and rare versions from the Aura sessions.

Scarcely functioning as a working band by the dawn of the 21st century, but still adored and applauded wherever they went, the Mission greeted the new age first with their best-in-years Aura CD, and then by dipping back into their catalog to re-record and, in some cases, reexamine their past. Aural Delight, depending upon how sacred you hold the original recordings, is either a great idea or a ghastly travesty -- one reason, perhaps, why the idea of filling an entire disc with reduxes seems to have paled after a time, prompting the band to look elsewhere for material. So a couple of B-sides, some solo Wayne Hussey material, and a Depeche Mode cover (an excellent take on "Never Let Me Down Again") join the re-versioned "Amelia," "Never Again," and "Spider and the Fly," and when it all wraps up with Hussey crooning through Elvis' "Can't Help Falling in Love with You," the feeling is almost mutual. ~ Dave Thompson, All Music Guide

Tracklist:

01. Amelia (4:57)
02. Even You May Shine (4:47)
03. Spider & The Fly (In the Ointment) (4:32)
04. Sorry... (3:56)
05. Anyone But You (4:07)
06. Never Let Me Down (4:33)
07. Never Again (4:20)
08. Melt (4:21)
09. Mesmerised (Reprise) (5:36)
10. Swoon (7:14)
11. Dragonfly (Demo) (5:36)
12. Can't Help Falling in Love With You (2:20)

Producer - Wayne Hussey
Mixed By - Dave Allen (tracks: 5, 8, 10)