Dead Can Dance ‎– Toward The Within

Label: 4AD ‎– DAD3627
Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
Country: UK & Europe
Released: 11 Nov 2016
Style: Ethereal, Goth Rock, Modern Classical, Folk

FIRST EVER LIVE ALBUM FROM MELBOURNE’S DEAD CAN DANCE. Toward The Within was originally recorded in 1993 at the Mayfair Theatre in Santa Monica, California and featured previously unreleased material from the band. Both Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry deliver stellar performances on a recording that showcases the depth of the ethereal goth rockers. Gerrard’s highlight is the one two punch of f “Tristan” and “Sanvean,” two songs that showcase her vocal prowess. “American Dreaming” and the set closing “Don’t Fade Away” shift the focus to Perry and his acoustic guitar to great effect. Fifteen tracks in all. Released by 4AD on double vinyl with printed inner sleeves.

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Dead Can Dance ‎– Garden Of The Arcane Delights / John Peel Sessions

Label: 4AD ‎– DAD 3628
Format: Vinyl, 12",  45 RPM, EP, Reissue
Vinyl, LP, Compilation
Country: UK
Released: 09 Nov 2016
Genre: Rock
Style: Ethereal, Goth Rock

Garden Of The Arcane Delights is the only EP released by Dead Can Dance, coming out in 1984 and acting as a bridge between their first two albums. Its sleeve a sketch by Brendan Perry, depicting “primal man deprived of perception, standing within the confines of a garden containing a fountain and trees laden with fruit… a Blakean universe in which mankind can only redeem itself, can only rid itself of blindness, through the correct interpretation of signs and events that permeate the fabric of nature’s laws.”

This new expanded version sees the EP faithfully pressed on to one piece of a vinyl at 45rpm with a second disc being added, compiling both of the band’s sessions for John Peel, recorded in the same time period.

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Dead Can Dance ‎– Spleen And Ideal

Label: 4AD ‎– CAD 3623
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
Country: UK & US
Released: 08 Jul 2016
Style: Alternative Rock, Modern Classical, Ethereal

Dead Can Dance’s second album, Spleen And Ideal (1985), saw them experiment more with instrumentation, abandoning guitars in favour of cello, trombone and timpani. Widely acclaimed, there was now a richness of uni cation between voice and music, lyrics and structure, showing they had a concrete sense of the aural ideal they were striving towards. It’s title was taken from Spleen et Idéal, a collection of poems by 18th century French poet Charles Baudelaire.

The band’s official website stated that the album title was taken “from 19th Century symbolist ideals”. The title is directly taken from “Spleen et Idéal”, a collection of poems by French poet Charles Baudelaire which form a section of his magnum opus Les Fleurs du mal.

Discussing the album’s musical style, All music commented that with Spleen and Ideal, Dead Can Dance “fully took the plunge into the heady mix of musical traditions that would come to define its sound and style for the remainder of its career. The straightforward goth affectations are exchanged for a sonic palette and range of imagination”

The 2016 LP version is a repress of the original release.

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