Dead Can Dance - Serpent's Egg
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Artist: Dead Can DanceEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-12-09
Music Label: 4ad Records
Soundtracks:
- The Host Of Seraphim
- Orbis De Ignis
- Severance
- The Writing On My Father's Hand
- In The Kingdom Of The Blind The One-Eyed Are Kings
- Chant Of The Paladin
- Song Of Sophia
- Echolalia
- Mother Tongue
- Ullyses
Music reviews of Serpent's Egg
Music Review: DCD evolve their sound a second time, with mixed results; not their best work
Rating: 3 Stars
The Serpent's Egg has two songs that no-one ought to miss: "The Host of Seraphim" and "Severance". These songs are works of sheer beauty that will blow you away, and they showcase some of the best singing Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry have ever done, respectively. If every song on this album were as good as these two (and similar in style, for that matter), the album would be a true masterpiece, the highlight of their career. Unfortunately, most of the other songs fall short of this high mark, and a couple are basically filler (which is especially hard to excuse given the very short length of the album). You can tell they were making every effort to experiment and not remain boxed in, but perhaps they tried a bit too hard, because the album has a sort of unbalanced and schizophrenic feel. The Serpent's Egg does not make the same concise, unified musical statement that its ethereal-classical predecessor Within the Realm of a Dying Sun or its Renaissance-inspired follow-up Aion does. In fact, I would recommend either of those two wonderful albums before this one if you'd like to find out what this band is about.
At any rate, this is still a Dead Can Dance album, and they never released anything truly bad. But this album does not represent them at their best, either.
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Their fourth album, originally released in 1988. At the time of its release, Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard were in Spain writing and recording music for "El Nino De La Luna", a film in which Lisa also made her acting debut.Alternative Rock CDs
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