Album
Dead Can Dance
1984 · Rock, Folk, World, & Country
11 collectors on Gatefold own this
Dead Can Dance is an Alt/Indie album by Dead Can Dance, originally released in 1984. On Gatefold: 70 pressings tracked, owned by 11 collectors.
About
Of all their albums, Dead Can Dance’s 1984 debut—recorded when Brendan Perry was 25 and Lisa Gerrard just 23—is the most connected to the punk generation that spawned the duo. Joy Division and Swans are the obvious touchstones, though where Joy Division were bleak and urban, Dead Can Dance are pastoral, and where Swans were assaultive, Perry and Gerrard are seductive. Even within the caustic drones of “The Fatal Impact,” it's possible to feel the spiritual dimension that would become a focus for the Australian duo on subsequent albums. While the album is dominated by Perry’s use of bass and drum machines—which work together to create slow rhythms that call to mind hordes of zombies marching together under some malevolent spell—the young duo were at their most effective when they were furthest away from conventional song structures. The drumless “Ocean” is among the most foreboding and hypnotic tracks they ever produced.
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Tracklist
- 1The Fatal Impact3:21
- 2The Trial3:42
- 3Frontier3:13
- 4Fortune3:47
- 5Ocean3:21
- 6East of Eden3:23
- 7Threshold3:34
- 8A Passage In Time4:04
- 9Wild In the Woods3:46
- 10Musica Eternal3:51
- 11Carnival of Light3:32
- 12In Power We Entrust the Love Advocated4:11
- 13The Arcane3:48
- 14Flowers of the Sea3:28
Sound DNA
- Alt/Indie
- Goth Rock
- cavernous
- eerie
- occult
Credits
The people behind it.
Production & Engineering
- Dead Can DancePRODUCER [PRODUCED BY], WRITTEN-BY
- Dead Can DancePRODUCER, WRITTEN BY
- Dead Can DancePRODUCER, WRITTEN-BY
- Dead Can DanceWRITTEN BY, PRODUCER
- Dead Can DanceWRITTEN-BY, PRODUCER
- Dead Can DanceWRITTEN-BY, PRODUCER [PRODUCED BY]
- Joe GillinghamENGINEER
- Joe GillinghamENGINEER [ENGINEERED BY]
- Kenny JonesENGINEER
- Kenny JonesENGINEER [ENGINEERED BY]
11 collectors on Gatefold own this · 70 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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