Dead Can Dance - Spleen And Ideal - 1985 UK 1st Press LP CAD 512 4AD EX

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Dead Can Dance ?– Spleen And Ideal

Label:

4AD ?– CAD 512

Format:

Vinyl, LP, Album

Country:

UK

Released:

Nov 1985

Genre:

Rock

Style:

Alternative Rock, Modern Classical, Ethereal

Tracklist

A1          De Profundis (Out Of The Depths Of Sorrow)  Soprano Vocals – Andrew Hutton

A2          Ascension         

A3          Circumradiant Dawn     

A4          The Cardinal Sin             

A5          Mesmerism      

B1          Enigma Of The Absolute             

B2          Advent

B3          Avatar

B4          Indoctrination (A Design For Living)       

Companies, etc.

    Recorded At – Woodbine Studios

    Mixed At – Woodbine Studios

    Mastered At – The Town House

    Phonographic Copyright (p) – 4AD

    Copyright (c) – 4AD

    Published By – Beggars Banquet Music Ltd.

    Pressed By – MPO

Credits

    Art Direction – Brendan Perry

    Cello – Gus Ferguson, Martin McGarrick*

    Engineer – John A. Rivers, Jonathan Dee

    Instruments [All Other], Voice – Brendan Perry, Lisa Gerrard

    Photography By [Sleeve] – Colin Gray

    Producer – Dead Can Dance, John A. Rivers

    Timpani – James Pinker, Tony Ayres

    Trombone – Richard Avison, Simon Hogg

Violin – Carolyn Costin

Written-By – Dead Can Dance

Notes

Recorded and mixed at Woodbine St. Recording Studios during September-November 1985.

This record was mastered on to metal at The Townhouse.

Special thanks to Julian and Maureen for their gracious hospitality.

?&© 1985 4·A·D

Published by Beggars Banquet Music.

Printed inner sleeve.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Matrix / Runout (Runout Side A): MPO CAD 512 A²

Matrix / Runout (Runout Side B): MPO CAD 512 B²

Dead Can Dance ?- Spleen And Ideal Now if I could only choose just one  DCD album, it would be Spleen And Ideal (the title of which was directly penned from a collection of Baudelaire poems). An ambitious leap into the dark, oozing with philosophic zeal and heavy orchestrated (neo-classical) slants. A transcendent and poetic masterpiece somber in tone, spinning melancholic for the greater good.

Stuff that so often tarnishes our ideals and drags us into senselessness

Spleen And Ideal is a rather magical, strangely uplifting affair, running deep with hypnotic hooks and lyrics that stab to the heart of things. Songs that grapple with truth, illusion, the malevolence of human nature, the stuff that so often tarnishes our ideals and drags us into senselessness. Notions the cover echoes in its broken star held aloft, aligned with the awkward skew of a half-demolished building in the distance, that defiant streak of red from the cloaked figure shining like an wordless metaphor.

Again this is a album of his and hers, with Lisa limelight-stealing with “Mesmerism” and “Circumradiant Dawn”, while “Avatar” takes the verve of “Ocean” to new swallow-filled heights. What a voice —  I remember seeing her live for The Serpent’s Egg tour (?) and being gobsmacked that her voice was actually xxx-times better than the album recordings.

Brendan compliments her arabesques brilliantly, though (they made for a powerful duo), with a rich authoritive boom that holds your imagination and, given the subject matter, without a sniff of snobbery. A thought-provoking tide backed by driven momentums, the dual timpani on “Enigma Of The Absolute”, for example, that excellently holds to the word-fall  like a slave-filled galleon rowing along in strict unison,  the prescriptive genius of sawing violin creeping in, underlining his existential conclusions.

The closing “Indoctrination” signs off the album in a trickling labyrinth of plaintives, to which Brendan recants against the poison of conditioning, turning what could have been pretentious into something piecing and insightful. A truly timeless piece of work that would bleed into the symphonics of “Realm Of A Dying Sun”, continue to expand out on  the utterly brilliant Serpent’s Egg and by the early ’90s was delving into mediaeval court music of Aion.”

Nice piece from

Author-Michael Rodham-Heaps-

From the Freq site retrieved September 13, 2017

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