''Burning from the Inside'' is the fourth studio album by English

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band

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, released in 1983 by record label

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Recording and production

During the recording of the album, singer Peter Murphy was ill, leaving the rest of the band to undertake much of the writing and recording process without him. As evidence of how much input the rest of the band had on the album, bassist

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and guitarist

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sang lead vocals on four of the songs. This, combined with the fact that the band started recording without Murphy, led to internal difficulties, and by the time the album was released, they had already broken up. In 2015, David J announced in a solo performance that the album's title came from an incident in which he and Ash were smoking hash in a car and the car caught fire, burning from the inside.

Reception

Ned Raggett, writing for ''

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'' in 2013, called the album "a compelling sprawl at its best, a case for fragmentation as beauty".

Track listing

Personnel

; Bauhaus * Peter Murphy – lead vocals *

– guitar, saxophone, vocals *

– bass, vocals *

Kevin Haskins Kevin Michael Dompe (born 19 July 1960), born and best-known as Kevin Michael Haskins, is an English drummer, best known from the British rock group Bauhaus. He was also a member of Tones on Tail and Love and Rockets. Early career As a child ...

– drums, keyboards

References

External links

* {{Authority control 1983 albums Bauhaus (band) albums Beggars Banquet Records albums Albums recorded at Rockfield Studios