Thirty-five years ago, in the summer of 1991, Siouxsie and the Banshees released the album Superstition. By this point in time, the band was legendary enough in college radio circles that a new release felt like royalty descending with a welcome decree. Or maybe the more suitable metaphor was that it was as if a goddess briefly appeared among us mere mortals. That’s certainly the impression given by the Superstition album cover, which features an ethereal image of frontwoman Siouxsie Sioux with a bearing that suggests ultimate poise.

The album’s lead single, “Kiss Them for Me,” compounded the sense of grandness and glory. Employing some of the same sonic techniques that distinguished the band’s 1988 college radio smash, “Peek-A-Boo,” the track is absolutely ravishing, which isn’t a descriptor that came to mind for most of the material pitched at student broadcasters. I remember playing this song — and other tracks from Superstition — and feeling like the studio was briefly spun around and transported to some strange, heavenly space.

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