On Feb 23, 1987, Xmal Deutschland released their third studio album, Viva. Critical response at the time was muted compared to the attention lavished on some of Xmal’s peers, but the album has aged well. Trouser Press, writing about the band’s catalogue as a whole, described the Hamburg quintet’s sound as dense and heavy, with Anja’s vocals pushed into the foreground. Later appraisals have been kinder: online reviews talk about Viva as gripping and gloomy yet unexpectedly tuneful, and fan-curated ranking sites now tend to place it just behind Fetisch in the band’s discography. Among listeners – particularly those who came to Xmal via reissues rather than the original 4AD LPs – there’s a strong argument that Viva is the most complete statement of what the band could do once they had bigger studios and more time.
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