Ned Raggett

the Black Album represented a change in the career of the group and an expansion of their sound with psychedelic elements.

All music critic Ned Raggett noted, some of the numbers show the band following their original punk vein, but by this point, the four were leaving straight three-chord thrash to the cul-de-sac revivalists.

And he also said, this was a chance for the band to try everything from straightforward rock to gentler atmospherics.

And Captain Sensible said, it is goth.

And of course, then it would become the single.

Ned Raggett of AllMusic praised Bauhaus's rendition of Ziggy Stardust, calling it a nuclear strength take on the original.

Because of the success of this single, it propelled the October 1982 album release, The Sky's Gone Out, to number three on the UK albums chart, becoming the band's highest charting album.

Of course, the first two albums, In the Flat Field and Mask, were very successful and helped establish the gothic rock genre.

It has similarities to Double Dare.

The song Exquisite Corpse was a dark, fragmented, and experimental closer to the album, blending the avant-garde soundscapes, unconventional structures, and ambient using the technique we discussed earlier.

In the retrospective review of the album, Ned Raggett of AllMusic wrote, "On balance, it's quite a fine album, but unlike Mask, it misses the infusion of a more positive energy and simply doesn't jell as perfectly.

More notable for individual songs than as a whole." In their feature in the, on the album in the 2001 Alternative Press, it described The Sky's Gone Out as one of the top 10 essential goth albums.

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