#neoclassical-darkwave — Public Fediverse posts
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Dead Can Dance – Spiritchaser (1996, Australia/UK)
Continuing our journey through the epic Fedi-sourced catalogue of must-hear albums, our next spotlight is on number 308 on The List, submitted by owlyph. With origins in Australia's experimental post-punk "Little Band" scene and then UK's goth scene, this is the meditative seventh studio album from the Queen and King of neoclassical darkwave, Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry. Also, this is the band's only album to have a Beatles member in the credits, due to some unintentional blink-and-you’ll-miss-it similarity to a song penned by George Harrison.
Want to read more? See the full spotlight/recipe on the Fediverse at @1001otheralbums.com or on the blog: https://1001otheralbums.com/2026/08/06/dead-can-dance-spiritchaser-1996-australia-uk/
Want to skip straight to the music? Here's a Songlink: https://album.link/i/277712470
Bonus feature - check out the lone 7" from Gerrard's previous experimental post-punk band Microfilm: side A "Centrefold"(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yyUO93JpEw), side B: "Window" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arCFRbvyix4)Happy listening!
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Dead Can Dance – Spiritchaser (1996, Australia/UK)
Our next spotlight is on number 308 on The List, submitted by owlyph.
Originally founded in 1981 out of Australia’s experimental post-punk Little Band[1] scene (and, I suppose, New Zealand’s punk rock[2] scene) and then finding a home in UK’s goth scene, within a couple of albums Dead Can Dance found the lush, instantly recognizable sound that would make core duo Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry the Queen and King of neoclassical darkwave. And that sound – with Gerrard’s stunning vocals channelling the “abstract vocabulary that lies within the collective unconscious”[3] over the varied shiny sounds the pair had collected from all corners of the world like sonic magpies – is what we hear on this, their meditative seventh studio album and last release prior to their first hiatus (1998 to 2005). (It’s also the group’s first album released after Gerrard began her solo career, having just released her debut The Mirror Pool the previous year.)
And so, if you are familiar with any Dead Can Dance from about 1985 on, there will be no surprises here – you’re in for a chill, gorgeous ride around the globe. The weirdest thing about this album? Apparently one sound that might have been unconsciously collected is a short bit in the third track, “Indus”, which, due to blink-and-you’ll-miss-it similarity to The Beatles’ “Within You Without You” (from Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band), the group was pressured into crediting George Harrison as a co-writer. As per Gerrard:
“We don’t know whether we stole it or not. We probably did, but who the hell knows?…It wasn’t deliberate, because we didn’t remember the record. I’m really unfamiliar with the Beatles’ work…musicologists are saying, ‘Oh, the first six notes are the same.’ So we had to contact George Harrison, who didn’t give a damn, frankly. He was gardening at the time. He said ‘Oh, I like that piece of music. It’s OK.’ But the [record company] pushed it, So we had to give credit to Harrison on the thing, which seems really bizarre.”[4]
And so, though we at 1001 Other Albums are known elsewhere on the Internets for not liking the Beatles,[5] I suppose with this spotlight I’m indirectly suggesting you also listen to a Beatles album. Because I don’t give a damn, frankly, and only wish someone will one day say of me in regards to a supposedly controversial moment: ‘they were gardening at the time’.
- Lisa Gerrard’s previous band was experimental post-punk Microfilm; Gerrard was the vocalist. ↩︎
- Brendan Perry’s previous band was originally formed in New Zealand as The Scavengers (Perry joined in 1977 as bass player and then vocalist), who then relocated to Melbourne, Australia in 1979 and changed their name to The Marching Girls. ↩︎
- Quote taken from a 1996 article in the Boston Globe, archived here. ↩︎
- Ibid. ↩︎
- If you are so inclined, you can see our moment of fame on reddit, which I may have alluded to in a previous spotlight. ↩︎
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Dead Can Dance – Spiritchaser (1996, Australia/UK)
Our next spotlight is on number 308 on The List, submitted by owlyph.
Originally founded in 1981 out of Australia’s experimental post-punk Little Band[1] scene (and, I suppose, New Zealand’s punk rock[2] scene) and then finding a home in UK’s goth scene, within a couple of albums Dead Can Dance found the lush, instantly recognizable sound that would make core duo Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry the Queen and King of neoclassical darkwave. And that sound – with Gerrard’s stunning vocals channelling the “abstract vocabulary that lies within the collective unconscious”[3] over the varied shiny sounds the pair had collected from all corners of the world like sonic magpies – is what we hear on this, their meditative seventh studio album and last release prior to their first hiatus (1998 to 2005). (It’s also the group’s first album released after Gerrard began her solo career, having just released her debut The Mirror Pool the previous year.)
And so, if you are familiar with any Dead Can Dance from about 1985 on, there will be no surprises here – you’re in for a chill, gorgeous ride around the globe. The weirdest thing about this album? Apparently one sound that might have been unconsciously collected is a short bit in the third track, “Indus”, which, due to blink-and-you’ll-miss-it similarity to The Beatles’ “Within You Without You” (from Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band), the group was pressured into crediting George Harrison as a co-writer. As per Gerrard:
“We don’t know whether we stole it or not. We probably did, but who the hell knows?…It wasn’t deliberate, because we didn’t remember the record. I’m really unfamiliar with the Beatles’ work…musicologists are saying, ‘Oh, the first six notes are the same.’ So we had to contact George Harrison, who didn’t give a damn, frankly. He was gardening at the time. He said ‘Oh, I like that piece of music. It’s OK.’ But the [record company] pushed it, So we had to give credit to Harrison on the thing, which seems really bizarre.”[4]
And so, though we at 1001 Other Albums are known elsewhere on the Internets for not liking the Beatles,[5] I suppose with this spotlight I’m indirectly suggesting you also listen to a Beatles album. Because I don’t give a damn, frankly, and only wish someone will one day say of me in regards to a supposedly controversial moment: ‘they were gardening at the time’.
- Lisa Gerrard’s previous band was experimental post-punk Microfilm; Gerrard was the vocalist. ↩︎
- Brendan Perry’s previous band was originally formed in New Zealand as The Scavengers (Perry joined in 1977 as bass player and then vocalist), who then relocated to Melbourne, Australia in 1979 and changed their name to The Marching Girls. ↩︎
- Quote taken from a 1996 article in the Boston Globe, archived here. ↩︎
- Ibid. ↩︎
- If you are so inclined, you can see our moment of fame on reddit, which I may have alluded to in a previous spotlight. ↩︎
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AUTUMN TEARS (Estats Units) presenta nou àlbum: "Crown of the Clairvoyant" #AutumnTears #NeoclassicalDarkwave #Setembre2025 #EstatsUnits #NouÀlbum #Metall #Metal #MúsicaMetal #MetalMusic
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AUTUMN TEARS (Estats Units) presenta nou àlbum: "Crown of the Clairvoyant" #AutumnTears #NeoclassicalDarkwave #Setembre2025 #EstatsUnits #NouÀlbum #Metall #Metal #MúsicaMetal #MetalMusic
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Aufhocker – 𝕬𝖚𝖋𝖍𝖔𝖈𝖐𝖊𝖗 - Daemonium
#Ambient #darkambient #dungeonsynth #neoclassical #neoclassicaldarkwave #synth #Canada
CC BY-SA (#CreativeCommons Attribution Share Alike) #ccmusic
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Aufhocker – 𝕬𝖚𝖋𝖍𝖔𝖈𝖐𝖊𝖗 - Daemonium
#Ambient #darkambient #dungeonsynth #neoclassical #neoclassicaldarkwave #synth #Canada
CC BY-SA (#CreativeCommons Attribution Share Alike) #ccmusic
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#DenTagStarten
#music
Heute mit #NeoclassicalDarkwave
Nils Frahm - You Name It
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Free download codes:
immortal ebt - zpominanye
"a russian neoclassical darkwave album about jail/addiction and it's psychological aftermath"
#bandcampcodes #neoclassicaldarkwave #experimentalpostpunk #music #yumcodes #bandcamp
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Free download codes:
immortal ebt - zpominanye
"a russian neoclassical darkwave album about jail/addiction and it's psychological aftermath"
#bandcampcodes #neoclassicaldarkwave #experimentalpostpunk #music #yumcodes #bandcamp
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Free download codes:
immortal ebt - zpominanye
"a russian neoclassical darkwave album about jail/addiction and it's psychological aftermath"
#bandcampcodes #neoclassicaldarkwave #experimentalpostpunk #music #yumcodes #bandcamp
https://www.getmusic.fm/r/immortal-ebt-zpominanye?utm_campaign=catalog&utm_source=mastodon
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Free download codes:
immortal ebt - zpominanye
"a russian neoclassical darkwave album about jail/addiction and it's psychological aftermath"
#bandcampcodes #neoclassicaldarkwave #experimentalpostpunk #music #yumcodes #bandcamp
https://www.getmusic.fm/r/immortal-ebt-zpominanye?utm_campaign=catalog&utm_source=mastodon
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Sto ascoltando la struggente e bellissima: #ViventLesHommes
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#GérardManset
#Album: La mort d'Orion
del #1970, #70s#ArtPop, #SpokenWord, #ProgressiveRock, #Poetry, #Chansonàtexte, #Chanson, #RockOpera, #BaroquePop, #BaroqueMusic, #TapeMusic, #HindustaniClassicalMusic, #Mass, #ProgressivePop, #Orchestral, #SymphonicRock, #PianoRock, #Experimental, #NeoclassicalDarkwave, #Choral, #ModernClassical, #FrenchProg, #French
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#NowPlaying #TheMetalDogIsNowPlaying
#PeterGundry
Dance of the Damned
Dance of the DamnedYouTube Search:
https://youtube.com/results?search_query=Peter+Gundry+Dance+of+the+Damned+Dance+of+the+DamnedLyrics:
#waltz #neoclassical #theatrical #gothicambient #neoclassicaldarkwave -
#NowPlaying #TheMetalDogIsNowPlaying
#PeterGundry
Dance of the Damned
Dance of the DamnedYouTube Search:
https://youtube.com/results?search_query=Peter+Gundry+Dance+of+the+Damned+Dance+of+the+DamnedLyrics:
#waltz #neoclassical #theatrical #gothicambient #neoclassicaldarkwave -
#NowPlaying #TheMetalDogIsNowPlaying
#PeterGundry
Dance of the Damned
Dance of the DamnedYouTube Search:
https://youtube.com/results?search_query=Peter+Gundry+Dance+of+the+Damned+Dance+of+the+DamnedLyrics:
#waltz #neoclassical #theatrical #gothicambient #neoclassicaldarkwave -
#NowPlaying #TheMetalDogIsNowPlaying
#PeterGundry
Dance of the Damned
Dance of the DamnedYouTube Search:
https://youtube.com/results?search_query=Peter+Gundry+Dance+of+the+Damned+Dance+of+the+DamnedLyrics:
#waltz #neoclassical #theatrical #gothicambient #neoclassicaldarkwave -
Song of the Day - No 151
Dead Can Dance - Severance
FUN FACT: Had this played at during our wedding vows.
WIKI
"Severance" by Dead Can Dance is a hauntingly beautiful song that explores separation, loss, and longing. Gerrard's mesmerizing vocals and Perry's evocative instrumentation create an enchanting and introspective experience.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unhfa9OnpbE
#SOTD #SongOfTheDay #music #DeadCanDance #etherealwave #gothic #neoclassicaldarkwave