Gift (album)

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The Sisterhood - Gift - 12" vinyl LP cover (front)
The Sisterhood - Gift - 12" vinyl LP cover (back)


The one and only album by The Sisterhood.

Release Notes

  Label   Catalogue#   Released'   Format   Country   Notes
  Merciful Release    SIS 020   June 1986     UK   12" vinyl LP
  Merciful Release   SIS 020C   June 1986   UK   Cassette
  Merciful Release   SIS 020   1990   UK   CD
  Merciful Release
  Rough Trade Records GmbH  
  SIS 020-LP,
  RTD 133.1684.1, RTD 1331.684.1 30  
  1993   Germany   12" vinyl LP     Official re-release
  Merciful Release
  Rough Trade Records GmbH
  SIS 020-CD,
  RTD 133-1684-2, RTD133.1684.2
  1993   Germany   CD   Official re-release.
  The back cover states: "Merciful Release
  is exclusively marketed and distributed by
  ROUGH TRADE RECORDS GmbH, Germany".
 
 No label   SIS 020-CD   2009   Australia     CD   Unofficial re-release (bootleg)


Remarks

  • It is important to note that due to Eldritch's recording contract he could not sing on this album.
    See more about this fact here ...


This page is Work in Progress and going to be extended as soon as ever possible


Tracks

 Title   Duration    Remarks
 A1  Jihad      8:16  
 A2  Colours                                 8:02  
 B1  Giving Ground     7:30  
 B2  Finland Red, Egypt White       8:16  
 B3  Rain From Heaven     6:43  


Gift - Australian reissue CD (Digipack / 2012)

Band / Recording Personnel


Cultural References


The final episode of BBC drama Spooks' seventh series references this album. The Russian code broadcast on a Cold War number station is "2.5.0.0.2.5. Finland Red Egypt White. It is twice blest. It is twice blest. Rain from Heaven". This code activates a Russian sleeper agent in Faversham, Kent to collect a hidden portable nuclear weapon to be taken to Grosvenor Square in London and detonated at 1500hrs. Also, while trying to get to London Bridge through an unused tube tunnel, Lucas says the sentence "What is lost can never be found"; a line from the "Giving Ground" track.