Crooked Crosses for the Nodding God

by Current 93

Crooked Crosses for the Nodding God cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1989
  • Label: United Dairies
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 46:25
  • Community rating: 3.25/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Boyd Rice, Tony Wakeford, Ian Read, Rose McDowall, Freya Aswynn, Douglas Pearce, David Tibet, Cyril Bunting

Album Notes & Community Reviews

David Tibet's esoteric collective continues its transition away from pure industrial tape music and heavily into apocalyptic folk on this eerie release. 'Crooked Crosses for the Nodding God' relies on acoustic instrumentation, haunting choral samples, and Tibet鈥檚 surreal, nursery rhyme-like vocal delivery to create an atmosphere of dread and religious mysticism. It is a profoundly unsettling and deeply influential piece of early neofolk.

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Tracklist

  1. He Is Everywhere Nowhere (2:55)
  2. Northforth (0:38)
  3. Hail (2:40)
  4. The Return Of The Final Church (5:06)
  5. Snow (1:59)
  6. Oh Thou Coal Black Smith (4:44)
  7. From Boyd's Bunker (0:33)
  8. Ending Ending (0:59)
  9. The Summer Past (2:06)
  10. The Sickstair Song (0:35)
  11. Toytown Awakes (0:30)
  12. Dark Wood Too Awakes (1:27)
  13. After Tomorrow (4:03)
  14. Hey Ho The Nodding God Comes! (1:42)
  15. Looney Runes (6:17)
  16. The Ballad Of Bobby Sunshine (7:58)
  17. The Use Of Compassion Explained (2:13)

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