All the Pretty Little Horses

by Current 93

All the Pretty Little Horses cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1996
  • Label: Durtro
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 55:32
  • Community rating: 3.75/5 from 10 ratings

Artists on this release: Thomas Ligotti, Steven Stapleton, Salamah Binti Isa, John Balance, Lilith Stapleton, Timothy D'Arch Smith, Nick Cave, Joolie Wood, David Rowlands, Michael Cashmore, David Tibet

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Inspired by traditional lullabies, 'All the Pretty Little Horses' is a haunting, deeply melancholic pinnacle of British neofolk. Current 93 utilizes delicate acoustic instrumentation and somber poetry to weave an incredibly mysterious, apocalyptic concept album about innocence and death.

Genres

Descriptors: acoustic, conceptual, pagan, dystopian, ritualistic, experimental, gentle, dark-humor, theatrical

Tracklist

  1. The Long Shadow Falls (2:15)
  2. All the Pretty Little Horsies (2:35)
  3. Calling for Vanished Faces I (1:50)
  4. The Inmost Night (2:16)
  5. This Carnival Is Dead and Gone (3:11)
  6. The BloodBells Chime (2:58)
  7. Calling for Vanished Faces II (4:10)
  8. The Frolic (8:11)
  9. The Inmost Light (1:46)
  10. Twilight Twilight Nihil Nihil (8:22)
  11. The Inmost Light Itself (9:31)
  12. All the Pretty Horses (2:31)
  13. Patripassian (5:52)

Credits

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