Album
Vermilion Sands

posted: 2021-09-11 Rage in Eden Ultravox

released: 1981-09-11
on label: Chrysalis
artist: Ultravox
genres: New RomanticSynthpopNew Wave
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Following on from the success of Vienna, Ultravox cemented their position as a New Romantic phenomenon with their follow-up. The martial beats and political undertones of “The Thin Wall” single acted as a potent taster for the album, to be joined in the U.K. Top 20 by the even more powerful message of “The Voice.” Propulsive numbers like “We Stand Alone” and “I Remember (Death in the Afternoon),” the rebellious angst of “Accent on Youth,” the exotic strains of “Stranger Within,” and the haunting “Your Name Has Slipped My Mind Again” all contained their own power. And even if the instrumental “The Ascent” harkened back to “Vienna,” it was obvious that with Eden, Ultravox was climbing to grand new heights.