Dead Can Dance - Spleen And IdealDead Can Dance's second album, 'Spleen And Ideal' (1985), saw them experiment more with instrumentation, abandoning guitars in favour of cello, trombone and timpani. Widely acclaimed, there was now a richness of unification between voice and music, lyrics and structure, showing they had a concrete sense of the aural ideal they were striving towards. It's title was taken from Spleen et Ideal, a collection of poems by 18th century French poet Charles

pressed onto 180-gram vinyl and include download cards

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in terms of his life and the recording

but it is a masterpiece of long-format insanity -- with Boris and Robin providing a context for the massive gallumping of the Serge

and kill crabs

Nemeses Are Laughing

Released on its maker's 32nd birthday

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the companion compilation toåÊSynthesist

With a history of releasing singles between albums

The centrepiece of the record is Pimp Rex (AKA Rex Roland)