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Go Away White is as close to a summary of Bauhaus’s career as we could get without buying a best-of compilation. Granted, it sounds better than anything Bauhaus has ever put out, largely thanks to the many advances in recording technology that can happen in the space of 25 years. Kevin Haskins’ drums pop right out of the speakers, Daniel Ash’s distinctive guitar style gets a space all its own, and rather than blending into the soup behind him, Peter Murphy croaks and croons and screams in crystal-clear digital fidelity. It’s almost enough to make you wish they’d just go back and re-record all of the other albums, just so we could hear what they might sound like cleaned up a bit.