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Opal – Happy Nightmare Baby

27 March 2011 by Brandon Leave a Comment

For an album from 1987, Opal’s Happy Nightmare Baby does not have a typical album cover.  The sparse black-and-white look harkens more to Blue Note‘s glory days, or even to abstract covers from the ’50s.  In fact, the sound of the record itself is more akin to the sounds of that era as well, with [...]

Filed Under: Review Tagged With: 80s, cryptic, david roback, expressionism, fritz lang, german, glam, happy nightmare baby, hollow, kendra smith, mazzy star, mystery, opal, organ, romance, seance, stalker

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