The Scream (album)

The Scream
Studio album by
Released13 November 1978
RecordedAugust 1978
StudioRAK, London
GenrePost-punk
Length39:04
LabelPolydor
Producer
Siouxsie and the Banshees chronology
The Scream
(1978)
Join Hands
(1979)

The Scream is the debut studio album by British rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees, released on 13 November 1978 by Polydor Records. The album is considered a landmark recording: its innovative combination of angular and serrated guitar with a bass-led rhythm and machine-like drums played mostly on toms, made it a pioneering work of the post-punk genre.

The Scream was met with widespread acclaim and was hailed by critics as an original musical development in rock music. It strongly influenced post-punk, noise rock and alternative rock movements of the late 1970s and the 1980s and rock guitar playing in general.


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