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Siberia
Siberia
Studio album by Echo & the Bunnymen
Released	20 September 2005
Genre	Alternative rock, post-punk, neo-psychedelia
Length	51:18
Label	Cooking Vinyl
Producer	Hugh Jones
Echo & the Bunnymen chronology
Singles from Siberia
	"Stormy Weather"; Released: 5 September 2005; "In the Margins"; Released: 31 October 2005; "Scissors in the Sand"; Released: 5 June 2006;

Siberia is the tenth studio album by Echo & the Bunnymen. It was released on 20 September 2005 and received mixed reviews and was consequently the band's first album to not enter into the UK Top 75 Albums Chart.

The track "Of a Life" has the line "I want a song to learn and sing", which name-checks the band's 1985 compilation album Songs to Learn and Sing.

Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	66/100^[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[2]
The Guardian	^[3]
NME	(3/10)^[4]
Pitchfork Media	(6.7/10)^[5]
Slant Magazine	^[6]
Spin	(favourable)^[7]
Stylus Magazine	(B)^[8]
Uncut	^[9]

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Siberia received an average score of 66, based on 17 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".^[1]

Track listing

All tracks written by Ian McCulloch and Will Sergeant.

"Stormy Weather" – 4:24
"All Because of You Days" – 5:44
"Parthenon Drive" – 5:11
"In the Margins" – 5:06
"Of a Life" – 3:44
"Make Us Blind" – 4:00
"Everything Kills You" – 4:17
"Siberia" – 4:56
"Sideways Eight" – 3:16
"Scissors in the Sand" – 5:29
"What If We Are?" – 5:09

Personnel

Echo & the Bunnymen

Ian McCulloch - guitar, vocals
Will Sergeant - lead guitar

with:

Peter Wilkinson - bass
Paul Fleming - keyboards
Simon Finley - drums
Hillary Browning - cello on "Everything Kills You" and "What If We Are?"
Kate Evans, Martin Richardson - violin on "Everything Kills You" and "What If We Are?"
John Robert Shepley - viola on "Everything Kills You" and "What If We Are?"
Mimi McCulloch - tambourine on "In the Margins"