Dead Can Dance - Spleen & Ideal Remastered 180g LP007

Tracklisting - 1. De Profundis (Out Of The Depths Of Sorrow) 2. Ascension 3. Circumradiant Dawn 4. The Cardinal Sin 5. Mesmerism 6. Enigma Of The Absolute 7. Advent 8. Avatar 9. Indoctrination (A Design For Living) * Remastered from the original analogue tapes specially for this vinyl edition * Pressed on 180g VINYL, this is a LIMITED EDITION of 5000 copies, with sleeve printed on heavyweight board and newly designed inner bag. * The primarily experimental structure of their second album, Spleen and Ideal, released at the beginning of 1986, dispelled any notion that the band deserved the post -Gothic label slapped on them by the music pres. Spleen and Ideal defined a new richness of unification between voice and music, lyrics and structure, that suggested a concrete sense of the aural ideal the band were striving for. On Spleen and Ideal Brendan noted, ‘”there are pieces that tend to sort of link historically further back into baroque and medieval periods of music. They are just musical frameworks. The actual lyrical content is obviously personal to ourselves and is what makes contemporary sense of our music. The title of this album was taken form a piece of poetry from the 18th Century romantic poet, Baudelaire, and was chosen for the fact that it evoked the ‘conflict between sinning flesh (spleen) and the struggle to realize the ideal.’ Brendan summed it up by saying, “By nature of the lyrical sense, the tone, there was a two faceted aspect of a piece of music that celebrated the deal, and also songs about the pain of relationships, and there danger and pitfalls, I felt that interlinked with the cover design, the symbolism and the overall feeling of these two aspects, it was right, because Spleen and Ideal suggests a kind of mechanism, an interplay in human relationships and the world. Spleen being that aspect which robs the ideal of its efficacy and power to achieve that.’