Goodbye Horses : The Many Lives Of Q Lazzarus (Music From The Motion Picture)

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Diane Luckey, aka Q Lazzarus, was a talent ahead of her time. A mysterious singer-songwriter, best known for her song “Goodbye Horses,” used in Jonathan Demme’s film The Silence of the Lambs (1991), and covered by artists such as Hayden Thorpe and Jon Hopkins, MGMT, Crosses, Urban Heat and Electric Heat. Sadly, it would take several decades before her full story was finally known. On the occasion of the release of the documentary Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus, Sacred Bones is releasing a collection of songs spanning Q Lazzarus’s entire career, highlighting the different eras of her work and the full range of her personality. The first collection to receive the blessing of Q’s family, Goodbye Horses has the distinction of being her first and only full-length album. Recorded between 1985 and 1995, this treasure trove of unreleased music reflects some of the most interesting facets of pop music from the past four decades, in a way that is both scholarly and wildly eclectic. The title track “Goodbye Horses” remains a singular piece of spooky new wave perfection, and one could imagine an entire Q Lazzarus album built around that aesthetic, but like singers such as Alison Moyet, Annie Lennox or Lisa Gerrard, Q’s chameleon-like voice could lend itself perfectly to a variety of styles and settings. For fans of New Order, When In Rome, The Psychedelic Furs, Talking Heads, Roxy Music.