Background
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, AllMusic 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".[1]
Track listing
All tracks written by Dead Can Dance.
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1. | "De Profundis (Out of the Depths of Sorrow)" | 4:00 |
2. | "Ascension" | 3:05 |
3. | "Circumradiant Dawn" | 3:17 |
4. | "The Cardinal Sin" | 5:29 |
5. | "Mesmerism" | 3:53 |
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1. | "Enigma of the Absolute" | 4:13 |
2. | "Advent" | 5:19 |
3. | "Avatar" | 4:35 |
4. | "Indoctrination (A Design for Living)" | 4:16 |
Release history
Country |
Date |
UK |
25 November 1985 |
United States |
8 March 1994 |
Personnel
- Lisa Gerrard – vocals, all other instruments, production
- Brendan Perry – vocals, all other instruments, production, sleeve art direction
- Gus Ferguson – cello
- Martin McCarrick – cello
- James Pinker – timpani
- Tony Ayres – timpani
- Richard Avison – trombone
- Simon Hogg – trombone
- Carolyn Costin – violin
- Andrew Hutton – soprano vocals on track 1
- Technical
- John A. Rivers – production, engineering
- Jonathan Dee – engineering
- Colin Gray – sleeve photography
External links
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- Paul Erikson
- Simon Monroe
- James Pinker
- Scott Rodger
- Peter Ulrich
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