If a City Is Set Upon a Hill

by Current 93

If a City Is Set Upon a Hill cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 11 March 2022
  • Label: HomAleph
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 37:12
  • Community rating: 3.59/5 from 7 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

David Tibet's long-running neofolk collective delivers another intensely esoteric, apocalyptic musical vision. Grounded by haunting acoustic guitars, hurdy-gurdy drones, and intricate chamber strings, the record serves as an unsettling backdrop for his apocalyptic visions and heavily Christian-influenced poetic recitations.

Genres

Descriptors: christian, folklore, medieval, folk, experimental, minimal, spirituality, piano

Tracklist

  1. If A City... (5:57)
  2. There Is No Zodiac (5:53)
  3. Joke Moon (4:29)
  4. Clouds At Teatime (4:30)
  5. A Column Of Dust (4:41)
  6. The Child, And Fire (4:58)
  7. ...Is Set Upon A Hill (6:41)

Credits

  • Current 93 - primary artist, music by
  • Alasdair Roberts - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, autoharp, backing vocals, synthesizer
  • Ossian Brown - drone [dronetones]
  • Reinier Van Houdt - electric piano [fender rhodes], piano, voice
  • Rita Knuistingh-Neven - piano, voice
  • Michael J. York - pipe [pipes], whistle, duduk
  • Aloma Ruiz Boada - violin

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