}} For the book, see Floodland Floodland is the second album by The Sisters of Mercy, released in 1987. Composed and produced by Andrew Eldritch, it marked a change of direction from guitar-oriented rock towards synthesizer-based productions. The record peaked at number 9 in UK album charts. Overview The first Sisters album after the original dissolution of the band includes, among other things, choral singing, typically bombastic Jim Steinman productions (on "Dominion/Mother Russia" and "This Corrosion") and the first and last piano-and-vocals-only Sisters song ("1959", the piano programmed on synthesizer). While far from a concept album, Floodland still has many recurring themes and images. Andrew Eldritch himself described Floodland as "a fine album". Despite Eldritch's rather insistent objections to the designation "goth", Floodland has been lauded by some press as a classic go