![]() It’s pressing out against the world, daring it to pass judgment and reveling in an arch, angry subculture that it’s creating, seemingly from scratch. Produced by the band themselves since they insisted they were the only ones who truly understood how the album should sound, their debut is a collection of sharp, intensely focused elements that draws on the raw insurgency of punk but tugs it into a miasma of spooky wonders. When the band released full-length In the Flat Field about a year later, it ratified everything their first track (and the singles in between) promised. In trying to convey the dark majesty of goth to a novice in 10 minutes or less, a person could do far worse than just putting the debut single from Bauhaus, “Bela Lugosi’s Dead,” on the stereo and leaning back to let the agitated guitar, prowling rhythm and narcoleptic horror host vocals do the job.
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