Spleen and Ideal

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Spleen and Ideal
Spleen and Ideal cover
Studio album by Dead Can Dance
Released September 1, 1986
Recorded September - November 1985
Genre Darkwave
World music
Neoclassical
Length 38:11
Label 4AD Records
Producer Brendan Perry, Lisa Gerrard, John A. Rivers
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Dead Can Dance chronology
Dead Can Dance
(1984)		 Spleen and Ideal
(1985)		 Within the Realm of a Dying Sun
(1987)

Spleen and Ideal is the second album recorded by Dead Can Dance, released in 1986. A rather etheral form of darkwave music, similar to the origins in their debut album, Dead Can Dance, and followed a more world music and neoclassical oriented content, with lyrics based on the writings of Charles Baudelaire and Thomas de Quincey.

[edit] Track listing

  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
  6. "Enigma of the Absolute" – 4:13
  7. "Advent" – 5:19
  8. "Avatar" – 4:35
  9. "Indoctrination (A Design for Living)" – 4:16
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